I am having trouble with my soundblaster pro card and the cooresponding CD-ROM
drive. When using a CD supplied with the kit, the system works fine. The
system also works fine with some commercial software. When using some
commercial disks, however, the audio is barely audible. The packages all say
to use MSCDEX version 2.1 or higher. I have 1.x and some of the programs run
fine. Could an older version of MSCDEX be my problem and if so, how do I get a
newer one?
You can d/l mscdex from CIS (GO MULTIMEDIA), filename is MSCDEX.EXE; or (GO
MSL) and d/l CDEXT.EXE. The former should be v2.22, the newest; the latter may
still be v2.21. If you have DOS6, it comes with that product; just look in
your DOS directory. Some of the oddities of the various versions of mscdex are
outlined in file laser3.txt in Lib. #4 here if you have problems.