Last Updated: 03/03/2000
Customer Support Document #3126
SoundMan Wave Installation under Windows® 95
The following information details the installation of the Logitech
SoundMan Wave under Windows 95. This is written with the assumption there
is a general understanding of Windows 95 in order to accomplish these
diagnostics.
Procedure for installing SoundMan Wave drivers version 1.0 under
Windows 95
Because the first portion of the driver and utilities installation cannot
be run from within Windows 95, please do the following:
1. Go to "Start", then "Shut Down", and select
"Restart in DOS Mode".
2. Once the system has restarted to a DOS prompt, insert SoundMan Wave
disk #1. Go to the A: or B: prompt and type INSTALL. Follow the on-screen
steps as outlined by the SoundMan Users Guide. When prompted to either
install the SoundMan Wave drivers and utilities for Windows or to REBOOT
the computer, select Reboot" and remove SoundMan Wave disk #1 from
the drive.
3. Once the system has restarted into Windows 95, insert SoundMan Wave
disk #1. Go to "Start", then "Run". On the command
line, type A:\WINSTALL (or B:\WINSTALL if installing from drive B:).
SOUNDMAN WAVE DRIVERS and MCS MUSICRACK are the only components in the
list of components available for installation required for the proper
functioning of SoundMan Wave under Windows 95. Remove any check marks from
the other components not being installed. These other components can be
installed at a later time (if desired). The accessories, Icon Hear-It Lite
and BeST Speech Read Out, DO NOT function properly under Windows 95.
4. Follow the instructions as they appear until the end of the
installation where you will be prompted to either "Reboot the
System", or "Return to Windows". Select "Return to
Windows". Then, go to "Start", then "Shutdown",
and select "Restart".
After Windows 95 has restarted, open up MCS MUSIC RACK. Check to see if
the volume levers are active in the mixer control. If they are, then the
SoundMan Wave drivers are active.
If the volume levers are not active in MCS MUSICRACK or if sound only
comes out of one speaker, then the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files may
not exist on the computer system. If this is the case, the DOS portion of
the SoundMan Wave installation will not give the proper error message. To
verify this, please do the following:
1. Go to "Start", then "Run", and type
"SYSEDIT"then click "OK" or hit [Enter].
2. View the CONFIG.SYS file. Look for the following line:
C:\SOUNDMAN\SMWSET.SYS
3. If this line is not present, or is not in the COMMON section (for
systems using a multiple boot menu), type or move the line to the top of
the file. Click on "File", "Save", and
"Exit" the editor. After checking the CONFIG.SYS file, edit the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file to verify any entries here are correct. Check for the
following lines:
C:\SOUNDMAN\SMWVOL.EXE
SET LSOUND=C:\SOUNDMAN
Only the "SET LSOUND" line is required under Windows 95 so the
first line can be removed.
4. If the lines are present in both AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS and the
volume control is still not active after restarting the computer, the
Windows 95 setup wizard may not have correctly identified the SoundMan
Wave card and set up drivers for another sound card. To verify this, go
to "Start", "Settings", "Control Panel", and
"System". Then, click on "Device Manager". There
will be a list of the hardware devices detected by the Windows 95 setup
wizard. Check to see if there is a branch labeled SOUND VIDEO and GAME
CONTROLLERS. If this branch is present, double-click on it to expand the
listing. If you see any reference to a sound card, remove it (there
should no reference to sound under Windows 95 when using SoundMan Wave
driver version 1.0).
5. Once the other drivers have been removed, restart Windows 95. If the
volume control does not work properly, then turn the computer off, remove
the SoundMan from the system. Turn the computer back on, and once in
Windows 95 go to "Start", "Settings", "Control
Panel", and select "Add New Hardware". Allow the Windows
setup wizard to search the computer for new hardware. This step should
result in Windows 95 system registry being rewritten without reference to
any sound card at all. After this is completed, reinstall the sound card
and all the drivers as outlined above.
6. If the above steps fail to allow access to the mixer controls in MCS
Music Rack, then it will be necessary to manually remove the entries not
pertaining to SoundMan Wave from Windows System Registry.
To edit Windows System Registry, please do the following:
a) Go to "Start", then "Run". Type REGEDIT for the
program name, and click "OK". The Registry Editor will then
open. Expand the branch HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (by clicking on the + in front
of the line). Then expand the SYSTEM, CURRENTCONTROLSET, CONTROL, and
MEDIARESOURCES branches.
b) Expand the MIDI branch. If there are any entries other than MIDI
listed there, remove them (by single clicking on the entry and pressing
the DELETE key on the keyboard).
c) Go to the MIXER branch and delete any entries other that MIXER.
d) Go to WAVE and delete any entries under that branch other than WAVE.
Close the Registry Editor, shut down Windows 95, and restart the
computer.
After the sound card is installed and functioning properly, Windows 95 may
not have setup a driver for the game port. To find out if a Gameport
driver is installed, please do the following:
1. Go to "Start", "Settings", "Control
Panel", "System", "Device Manager". On the
hardware tree, there will be a branch listing for "Sound, Video, and
Game Controller".
2. If this entry is missing, or there is no entry for GAMEPORT JOYSTICK
under that branch, go "Start", "Settings",
"Control Panel", "Add New Hardware", and click
"Next". When you are prompted to allow Windows 95 setup wizard
to search the system for new hardware, select "No", and click on
"Next". Select "Sound Video Game Controller". Under
the Manufacturers list select "Microsoft" and under Models
select "Gameport Joystick". Click on "Next" and
follow the on-screen instructions to complete setting up the driver.
To setup the SoundMan SCSI CD ROM drivers under Windows 95
1. Edit the CONFIG.SYS file. Check for the following line:
C:\SOUNDMAN\SMWSET.SYS
2. Under this line, enter a new line as follows:
DEVICEHIGH=C:\SOUNDMAN\Z5380.SYS /M0 /D:SMCD000
NOTE: If you have a Texel CD ROM drive, change "/M0" to
"/M1" (Texel drives marketed under the name PLEXTOR do not need
this change).
3. A "LASTDRIVE" statement is not necessary for Windows 95 as it
is already implemented.
4. Edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Insert the call to MSCDEX.EXE to match the
installed Z5380 driver as follows:
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:SMCD000 /M:10 /E /V
The SCSI interface built into SoundMan Wave should work with any SCSI CD
ROM up to 6x in speed. The SCSI interface is capable of 1 MB sustained
data throughput. CD ROM's that are faster than 6x exceed the rated
throughput of the interface and may not function properly. Sony 55S
drives require a specially modified driver for the CD Audio to work under
Windows 3.1x or Windows 95. Sony 76S has the same compatibility issue but
currently there is no driver available to resolve this issue.
The following steps will allow you to modify the SCSI driver to work with
the Sony 55S only (no solution is available for the Sony 76S). Follow the
steps that correspond to the driver version being used with SoundMan.
Use DEBUG to patch the existing driver. First, make a backup copy of
Z5380.SYS called Z5380.OLD.
Then, edit the Z5380.SYS as follows:
| Version 3.04 |
Version 3.15 |
| DEBUG Z5380.SYS |
DEBUG Z5380.SYS |
| E 7B2B |
E 7EAE |
| 20 |
20 |
| W |
W |
| Q |
Q |
Restart the computer and test.
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