============================================================== Navigating Help without a mouse: ============================================================== A button can be activated by either a mouse, keyboard [ENTER] or ALT+button's hotkey. [F3] Exit to DOS, all changes are discarded. [TAB] Move to Option. [ENTER] Accept Button. Open Combo Box for selecting options, Accept options from combo Box. [] Select Options within Combo box While in help mode... Alt-P Go to the next page in help Alt-D Go to the previous page in help Alt-Q Exit help. ============================================================== How to change I/O Address, DMA,IRQ for Windows Sound System: ============================================================== First, use the TAB key or mouse to change the current mode to Windows Sound System. Then TAB or mouse to the desired setting and press ENTER to open the selection box. Note: If you have a plug and play system, these options will be automatic and therefore disabled. If you need to change them however, you must use your plug and play configuration utility that came with your system. Thats the whole idea behind plug and play! ============================================================== How to change I/O Address, DMA, IRQ for Sound Blaster Mode ============================================================== First, use the TAB key or mouse to change the current mode to Sound Blaster Pro. Then TAB or mouse to the desired setting and press ENTER to open the selection box. Note: If you have a plug and play system, these options will be automatic and therefore disabled. If you need to change them however, you must use your plug and play configuration utility that came with your system. ============================================================== What mode is best? Sound Blaster or Windows Sound System? ============================================================== Sound Blaster Pro. The SE14SRS/SE34SRS operates both in Windows Sound System mode and Sound Blaster mode. Regardless of this setting, the SE14SRS / SE34SRS *always* switches to Windows Sound System mode when running Microsoft Windows. If you set the mode to Windows Sound System, then Windows Sound System is the mode wether you are in DOS or Windows. The only reason to set Windows Sound System mode is if you have a DOS application that reuquires Windows Sound System (highly unlikely). So keep the mode set to Sound Blaster and all your favorite games and such will run fine. Which brings us to the next topic... ============================================================== How to setup your DOS games and programs for sound. ============================================================== 1. Make sure your current mode is set to 'Sound Blaster Pro'. 2. Setup DOOM, Descent, Heretic, or whatever to use a 'Sound Blaster Pro or compatible' device. ============================================================== How to test your settings and SE14SRS / SE34SRS: ============================================================== There is a button in SNDINIT titled 'Sound Test'. Use all 3 tests. Don't worry if the FM Synthesis is a bit softer than the other tests. For 8 Bit you should hear a 'tada' sound. The 16 Bit test plays a little tune, and the FM Synthesis test plays 3 notes. ============================================================== How to change volume levels: ============================================================== There is a button in SNDINIT called Volume. While you can use this to adjust volumes, *most* applications and games have built-in volume settings. You can access this screen directly by typing VOLUME from the C:\SOUNDEXP directory. ============================================================== What is MIDI and MPU401? ============================================================== MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MPU401 is a standard interface for musical devices such as keyboards. Hint: To improve the music produced by the SE14SRS/SE34SRS, look into attaching a device known as a WaveTable adapter to the SE14SRS/SE34SRS. This small device plugs into the pins on top of the SE14SRS/SE34SRS, near the middle. A WaveTable adapter contains actual samples of musical sounds. ============================================================== How to setup a CD-ROM: ============================================================== The SE14SRS/SE34SRS supports IDE type CD-ROM Drives. If you have a CD-ROM and its already installed, then all you have to do is attach the audio cable to the SE14SRS/SE34SRS. The audio cable is a small thin wire coming from your CD-ROM (not the wide-flat ribbon cable). If you wish to use the SE14SRS/SE34SRS as the adapter card, attach the flat ribbon cable from the CD-ROM drive to the CD-ROM interface connector on the SE1440. The stripe on one side of the cable (usually red) signifies pin 1 which needs to match up with pin 1 on the SE14SRS/SE34SRS, which is designated by a white stripe or band approximately one-eight of an inch. Now use SNDINIT to tell the adapter to 'turn on' the CD-ROM interface. SNDINIT will guide you through all the details and install drivers into your config.sys and autoexec.bat (startup) files. If you wish to use drivers that came with your CD-ROM, make sure you leave the following line intact in your config.sys: Device=C:\soundexp\cdsetup.sys /T:I /P:170 /I:X /D:X ============================================================== How to select an input device? ============================================================== The 'input' for recording sound, etc. is software selectable between the 'mic' and the 'line in' jack. ============================================================== Whats the *quickest* way to check the current settings? ============================================================== Type SNDINIT /b ============================================================== What is happening to COM Port Settings for modems? or Why can't I just select a COM port for the modem? ============================================================== For the most part, Plug and Play no longer really cares about your COM ports. In the future you may find that this is beneficial because now you can use 'non standard' COM Ports at bizarre an I/O Address for example, 0x100. If all this is too technical, then use the chart below to convert COM port to I/O Address: COM PORT I/O Address -------------------------- COM 1 = 0x3F8 COM 2 = 0x2F8 COM 3 = 0x3E8 COM 4 = 0x2E8