EMM386 has detected error #PC hangs and i need to turn it off.
First it did not bother me. Problem was real when i booted with F8 option to DOS and had no sound. Wanted to see how well Quake 1 will run on this computer, but without sound its pointless.
To get sound working i needed EMM386 memory manager to work.
Every time sound driver was running DOS hang after running any program after that with above error by the memory manager.
So i had another PCI sound card. Downloaded DOS drivers and same problem. Replaced EMM385 and himem.sys with clean version, but problem remains. Used third PCI sound card, again same problem. No PCI sound card can run without EMM386 memory manager. At least with my sound cards.
Problems that my be the cause:
- Faulty main memory
- Wrong BIOS settings.
I still wanted to see how well Quake 1 will run. In Windows 95 with sound it has only 8MB free memory to use. It was really slow.
Final attempt. Used ISA ESS SoundDrive ES1868F sound card. Pulled this from another PC, installed and configured autoexec.bat
Quake 1 showed sound card and sound was there. It ran quite well. At least for 320x200 resolution.
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