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Understanding the Installation Program in Windows 98 Second Edition Sound Blaster Live! Value Sound Card User's Guide
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Understanding the Installation Program in Windows

98 Second Edition: Sound Blaster Live! Value
Sound Card User's Guide
Overview •

The AUTOEXEC.BAT File Settings

Overview
The installation program modifies your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files.
The AUTOEXEC.BAT File Settings
The installation program adds the following statements to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
The first two statements set up the environment variables for your audio card. For an
explanation of the variables, see
"Using the Sound Card".
The third statement runs the SBEINIT.COM driver. SBEINIT.COM is the SB Live! MS-DOS
driver. It is required for the SB Live! Value card to function properly under MS-DOS mode. The
syntax for the statement is as follows:
<SB Live! path>\SBEINIT.COM
SBEINIT.COM requires that the HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE files are loaded. If needed, the
installation program adds the necessary HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE lines to your
CONFIG.SYS file, creating the file if it is not present.
On the rare occasion a program does not work with expanded memory, simply add the NOEMS
parameter to your memory manager. For example:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
if C:\WINDOWS is your Windows directory.
You may load this driver into high memory in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, even though the default
is not. For example:
LOADHIGH=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
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• The CONFIG.SYS File Settings
"Understanding the Environment Variables" in the section