On 22 Jun, 18:05, "Don Phillipson" wrote:
"rpgs rock dvds" wrote in ...

The driver package for this card installs an unwanted legacy audio
device inside Device Manager. *It also adds a "SET BLASTER" line
inside autoexec.bat, which "cancels out" my own SET BLASTER line for
my real SoundBlaster card.

If I remove the unwanted SET BLASTER line, the legacy audio device
simply adds it back in after a reboot.

This is normal for DOS apps (e.g. legacy software for Win95/98).

The question is why you need to load any DOS apps. or drivers
(perhaps for a DOS game: *if so, *you could do this via AUTOEXEC.DOS
for this particular game, activated uniquely for it via its own
/ Properties / Program / Advanced
where you check the two boxes
MS-DOS mode
and
Specify a new MS-DOS configuration
and write the commands into the two boxes for CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT.

But at least some of these games run perfectly well under
Windows, i.e. use Windows drivers, and need no CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT at boot -- only those specific to a single
DOS app as above.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

I really want to be able to restart Win98 in "pure DOS mode" for some
DOS apps. And please note that I already do what you say in your post
re running DOS apps.

Unfortunately, I am finding that the (disabled or removed) Ensoniq
legacy audio device is still meddling with the autoexec.bat file which
I have carefully "fine-tuned" for my specific DOS requirements, which
I set-up in the manner you described in your post.