Very nice ! Thank you very much !!
I'm eager to try this tool on my new HP thin client !

Best regards
Philippe

Excellent! Now I finally have a use for all of these motherboards that I re-capped last year:

These are from the HP T5700 thin client (VT8231). I am happy to report that both sound and music work flawlessly in at least some games. Tested Duke 3d, Epic Pinball, and Jazz Jackrabbit. The sound quality is actually pretty good. Only issue was music was choppy in Duke 3d.

The onboard video is an ATI Rage XL. Seems to work well in the games I've tested.

Hi all !

I did receive my HP Thin client T5710 today with the VT8231 southbridge, no activation in bios for soundblaster, and VIASBCFG does works perfectly !!
A fast and ugly video in French : https://www.facebook.com/prez.philippe.dubois … t=video_comment

Best regards
Philippe

Awesome!!!!! great work!, just watched Phils vid on it.

Is there any chance this will work on a VT8235?

Weebob wrote on 2020-05-05, 15:31:

Awesome!!!!! great work!, just watched Phils vid on it.

Is there any chance this will work on a VT8235?

Doh, AC-97, that will be the end of that. But hey I managed to answer my own question

Weebob wrote on 2020-05-05, 15:34:

Weebob wrote on 2020-05-05, 15:31:

Awesome!!!!! great work!, just watched Phils vid on it.

Is there any chance this will work on a VT8235?

Doh, AC-97, that will be the end of that. But hey I managed to answer my own question

Yep, from VT8235, VIA dropped legacy hardware emulation. A pity. AC'97 only.

JazeFox wrote on 2020-05-05, 15:37:

Yep, from VT8235, VIA dropped legacy hardware emulation. A pity. AC'97 only.

Thanks for the reply, this really is great work! Time to hunt down a thin client...

@JazeFox Well this is a great tool!
Sadly, I tested it on my HP T5530 (VIA VT8237) and it didn't work, as it isnt a VIA8321/VT82C686. Thanks anyway!

Hi all !
Remember that you can have a look at this primary list of 'should be' compatible thin clients ! List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Best regards
Philippe Dubois

Very nice!

It is a nice feature to have, i tried it today in a Thinclient and it works, but anyway the FM emulation is one of the worst i have ever heard, really, it is not usable at all once you have heard how those games should sound.

I have also noticed there are some sound effects missing, sometimes, in some games, anybody is experiencing this?

Just tried on my NEC Versa C140 laptop (which has been stuck on a pile for ages because it's not the most amazing spec, but this would make it somewhat useful), and it initialised okay (VT8231), plus the FM Emulation loaded, but I couldn't get any sound output sadly. Anything I can do to help troubleshoot?

I tried VIASBCFG on a HP Compaq T5300 Thin Client and at first it was locking up on boot, it would lock up right after VIASBCFG would show it's information text on screen during boot, I had DOS v6.22 and Windows 3.11 installed, I found out what was causing the problem, my CONFIG.SYS had this:

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM

and when using the HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE from Windows 3.11 VIASBCFG would lock up on boot, but then I remembered that DOS has its own versions of the same files, and so I edited my CONFIG.SYS file to have this:

DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM

and now VIASBCFG works.

will1384 wrote on 2020-05-10, 23:22:

I tried VIASBCFG on a HP Compaq T5300 Thin Client and at first it was locking up on boot, it would lock up right after VIASBCFG […]
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I tried VIASBCFG on a HP Compaq T5300 Thin Client and at first it was locking up on boot, it would lock up right after VIASBCFG would show it's information text on screen during boot, I had DOS v6.22 and Windows 3.11 installed, I found out what was causing the problem, my CONFIG.SYS had this:

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM

and when using the HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE from Windows 3.11 VIASBCFG would lock up on boot, but then I remembered that DOS has its own versions of the same files, and so I edited my CONFIG.SYS file to have this:

DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM

and now VIASBCFG works.

Here are the versions included with DOS and Windows

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/ques … ows-3-x-version
Windows 3.0: HIMEM.SYS 2.60
MS-DOS 5.0: HIMEM.SYS 2.77
Windows 3.1: HIMEM.SYS 3.07
MS-DOS 6.2 and later, Windows for Workgroups 3.11: HIMEM.SYS 3.10

https://www.infania.net/ms6kb/Q98768.htm
Product Version of EMM386.EXE
MS-DOS 6.0 4.45
MS-DOS 6.2 and 6.21 4.48
MS-DOS 6.22 4.49
Windows for Workgroups 3.1 4.44
Windows for Workgroups 3.11 4.48
Windows 95 4.95

darry wrote on 2020-05-10, 23:44:

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will1384 wrote on 2020-05-10, 23:22:

I tried VIASBCFG on a HP Compaq T5300 Thin Client and at first it was locking up on boot, it would lock up right after VIASBCFG […]
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I tried VIASBCFG on a HP Compaq T5300 Thin Client and at first it was locking up on boot, it would lock up right after VIASBCFG would show it's information text on screen during boot, I had DOS v6.22 and Windows 3.11 installed, I found out what was causing the problem, my CONFIG.SYS had this:

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM

and when using the HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE from Windows 3.11 VIASBCFG would lock up on boot, but then I remembered that DOS has its own versions of the same files, and so I edited my CONFIG.SYS file to have this:

DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM

and now VIASBCFG works.

Here are the versions included with DOS and Windows

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/ques … ows-3-x-version
Windows 3.0: HIMEM.SYS 2.60
MS-DOS 5.0: HIMEM.SYS 2.77
Windows 3.1: HIMEM.SYS 3.07
MS-DOS 6.2 and later, Windows for Workgroups 3.11: HIMEM.SYS 3.10

https://www.infania.net/ms6kb/Q98768.htm
Product Version of EMM386.EXE
MS-DOS 6.0 4.45
MS-DOS 6.2 and 6.21 4.48
MS-DOS 6.22 4.49
Windows for Workgroups 3.1 4.44
Windows for Workgroups 3.11 4.48
Windows 95 4.95

Using a HEX editor on my Linux PC I opened the Windows files I was having trouble with and found this:

HIMEM: DOS XMS Driver, Version 3.10 - 09/30/93
MICROSOFT Expanded Memory Manager 386 Version 4.48..Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1986, 1993

The DOS versions were:

HIMEM: DOS XMS Driver, Version 3.10 - 09/30/93
MICROSOFT Expanded Memory Manager 386 Version 4.49..Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1986, 1994

RichB93 wrote on 2020-05-10, 18:17:

Just tried on my NEC Versa C140 laptop (which has been stuck on a pile for ages because it's not the most amazing spec, but this would make it somewhat useful), and it initialised okay (VT8231), plus the FM Emulation loaded, but I couldn't get any sound output sadly. Anything I can do to help troubleshoot?

The sound works in Windows 9x with original drivers installed?
What are you loading in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?
What is the codec's base address? (you can checkit it in VIASBCFG at run time, the firt line, at the end, somethig like: Base: [xxxx]
You can also run this to dump PCI devs:
http://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/pci.zip

Run PCI.EXE>PCILOG.TXT
and attach the log here.

Does this work with DOS mode of Windows 98 SE? I dont know how to install pure MSDOS 6.22 in my T5710....

It should be easier with a usb floppy disk 😀

Thanks, I'll try to get one... but part of my problem its the FAT16 2Gb limit...
How about DOS 7.1, would it work?

I use DOS 7.1, it works perfectly well !
I did install W98SE as well and it works great.
With FAT32 you have many GBs ahead 😉