Need help with Aztec soundcard

Does anyone have an Aztec soundcard that is running Nascar? A friend of mine has this, in a Packard Bell Pentuin 75, and we have not had any luck getting it to work. The readme.txt files states to use SoundBlaster mono 8, tried it, and still lockes up the system. Tried creating autoexec.bat/config.sys for it to run in ms-dos mode under Windows95, and everytime it gets to the beginning screen, where it is initializing the soundcard, it locks up. Since we can't play Hawaii over here in the U.K. ;-((, we can only multi player race head to head, and we need more drivers to be able to call and race against. Any ideas, or help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Mark/Shara WWW Homepage: www.dungeon.com/~smurf/index.html

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> Does anyone have an Aztec soundcard that is running Nascar? A friend of mine > has this, in a Packard Bell Pentuin 75, and we have not had any luck getting > it to work. The readme.txt files states to use SoundBlaster mono 8, tried it, > and still lockes up the system. Tried creating autoexec.bat/config.sys for it > to run in ms-dos mode under Windows95, and everytime it gets to the beginning > screen, where it is initializing the soundcard, it locks up. > Since we can't play Hawaii over here in the U.K. ;-((, we can only multi > player race head to head, and we need more drivers to be able to call and race > against. > Any ideas, or help would be greatly appreciated. > Cheers > Mark/Shara > WWW Homepage: www.dungeon.com/~smurf/index.html

I have the same setup a 75 Pentium from Packard Bell. What I had to do was restart the computer in ms-dos mode and run the auto setup for the sound card and every- thing worked great when running in ms-dos mode through win95. Good luck, Bill

aztec or Aztech? I will assume Aztech. Aztech has two families of sound cards. They have made about thirty different models, but they fall in the two families. They have a home page on the web. Use YAHOO and find them. They have a technical bulletin which might help you. My particular Aztech soundcard is called the Sound Galaxy II. It works just fine with NASCAR. It is set up as microsoft 8 bit stereo. I do not use FM sound. When I tried FM sound, it sounded terrible using this sound card. Like a tin can or the speaker of a cheap electronic game. -- Best Wishes!!! Robert Huggins

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> Does anyone have an Aztec soundcard that is running Nascar? A friend of mine > has this, in a Packard Bell Pentuin 75, and we have not had any luck getting > it to work. The readme.txt files states to use SoundBlaster mono 8, tried it, > and still lockes up the system. Tried creating autoexec.bat/config.sys for it > to run in ms-dos mode under Windows95, and everytime it gets to the beginning > screen, where it is initializing the soundcard, it locks up. > Since we can't play Hawaii over here in the U.K. ;-((, we can only multi > player race head to head, and we need more drivers to be able to call and race > against. > Any ideas, or help would be greatly appreciated. > Cheers > Mark/Shara > WWW Homepage: www.dungeon.com/~smurf/index.html

I use Aztec on a Pentium 100 and it works great. It might have something to do with the fact that I also use a "boot floppy" to play NASCAR. I couldn't get sound without it. I believe this frees-up the resources for NASCAR that usually Windows95 uses from the MS-DOS prompt. Start-up your system in DOS (from the Win95 shutdown menu) with the boot floppy in the drive. --Andy Houghton

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> Does anyone have an Aztec soundcard that is running Nascar? A friend of mine > has this, in a Packard Bell Pentuin 75, and we have not had any luck getting > it to work. The readme.txt files states to use SoundBlaster mono 8, tried it, > and still lockes up the system. Tried creating autoexec.bat/config.sys for it > to run in ms-dos mode under Windows95, and everytime it gets to the beginning > screen, where it is initializing the soundcard, it locks up. > Since we can't play Hawaii over here in the U.K. ;-((, we can only multi > player race head to head, and we need more drivers to be able to call and race > against. > Any ideas, or help would be greatly appreciated. > Cheers > Mark/Shara > WWW Homepage: www.dungeon.com/~smurf/index.html

Hello Mark/Shara (you guys need to get out more on your own :), I've been using an Aztec card with Nascar for a long time. The only problem I have is that the stereo channels are reversed with Nascar. Oops. I haven't actually tried it since upgrading to Win'95, but I wouldn't expect there to be any problems. It's definately working with indyII. Check out the Aztech website> http://www.aztech.com.sg although it is very slow. There is a FAQ there which may help, plus new drivers and patches for some games (but not nascar as far as I remember). Regards, James.

> I have the same setup a 75 Pentium from Packard Bell. What I had to do was restart > the computer in ms-dos mode and run the auto setup for the sound card and every- > thing worked great when running in ms-dos mode through win95. Samething for me as well. Each time I wanna play the game I have to run the "setup" in order for the sound to setup right.

This is a problem that usually occurs when you have a settings problem with the soundcard/game. The game thinks that the soundcard is at a different address/irq than it actually is. A good thing to do is to run the soundcard's configuration program for every boot-to-dos program you do. Also make sure that setblaster(or whatever your card uses)= is set to the proper configuration... E-mail me and I can get more specific. The main thing to remember is that win95 does not control anything when you boot to dos. You must configure everything just like you are running dos without win95.

>> I have the same setup a 75 Pentium from Packard Bell. What I had to do was > restart >> the computer in ms-dos mode and run the auto setup for the sound card and > every- >> thing worked great when running in ms-dos mode through win95. Thanks for the info all who helped, it did the trick, seems we were trying to run setup from the MS-DOS prompt instead of rebooting in MS-DOS mode. Again, Many thanks. Cheers Mark/Shara WWW Homepage: www.dungeon.com/~smurf/index.html