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Q149985: NEC READY Boot Disk Configuration for SB16 to Work in FS5.

Article: Q149985
Product(s): Microsoft Home Games
Version(s): MS-DOS:5.0,5.1
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 07-MAY-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Flight Simulator for MS-DOS, versions 5.0, 5.1 
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SUMMARY
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To use the NEC Ready Sound Card in Microsoft Flight Simulator, you must
configure it as a Sound Blaster 16 (SB16).

MORE INFORMATION
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The following steps assume your CD-ROM drive is drive D and that Windows is
installed in the Windows folder on drive C.

1. Run Flight Simulator Setup inside Windows. To do this, click Start, click
  Run, type d:\setup, and then press ENTER.

2. Create a Windows startup disk by following these steps:

  a. Insert a blank floppy disk into the floppy drive. This disk becomes your
     startup disk.

  b. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.

  c. Double-click Add/Remove Programs.

  d. Click the Startup Disk tab.

  e. Click Create Disk.

3. Create the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files listed below on the startup
  disk.

  Autoexec.bat
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    set sound16=c:\opti930
    c:\opti930\sndinit /b
    PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
    SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
    LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX /d:mscd000 /l:e /m:12
    C:\NECUTILS\LMOUSE.COM
    C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE
    C:
    CD FLTSIM5

  Config.sys
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    DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
    DEVICEHigh=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE ram
    DOS=HIGH,UMB
    DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\DRVSPACE.SYS /move
    FILES = 35
    DEVICEHIGH=C:\dos\OAKV111.SYS /d:mscd000 /m:s /p:170p /v

  NOTE: If the drive is compressed, there is not room in memory to load the
  CDROM Driver. Use the REM command to remark out the lines above, that contain
  either MSCDEX or OAKV111.SYS.

4. Restart the computer with the startup disk in the floppy drive.

5. Run Fight Simulator Setup from the MS-DOS command prompt and test the sound
  card with Autodetect. To do this, follow these steps:

  a. At the "C:\fltsim5" command prompt, type "setup" (without the quotation
     marks), and then press ENTER.

  b. Use the DOWN ARROW key to select the sound card, and then press ENTER.

  c. Select Autodetect, and then press ENTER. Follow the instructions on the
     screen to complete the installation.

The above steps work on NEC Ready models 7022, 9012, 9022, 9522, and 9532. The
MS-DOS drivers are installed by factory default. They are also available after
the NEC Product Recovery CD-ROM has reinitialized the hard disk. If you need the
latest NEC Recovery CD-ROM, call NEC Technologies at (800)632-4525.

The MS-DOS sound card driver does not work correctly in a MS-DOS Window or in a
virtual machine.

After using the DOS sound card driver, the sound card needs to be reset before
the Windows sound driver works correctly. The sound card can be reset by
shutting down and restarting the computer, or the sound card can be
automatically reset by the Windows sound driver when you exit Windows.

Additional query words: 5.00 5.10 5.x flightsim fltsim dos d_fltsim flt sim

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbGamesSearch kbFlightSimSearch kbFlightSim500DOS kbFlightSim510DOS kbSimSearch
Version           : MS-DOS:5.0,5.1
Issue type        : kbinfo

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