Sound issues

I have windows xp and windows 98 dual booting on a laptop that I have. windows xp and 98 both have sound. But when I shutdown into dos mode and try to configure some games, I have no sound. It says that I do not have a sound card or that the sound card is not responding on the ports that I have set. Any ideas? Do I need to load some different drivers for dos? Any ideas would be really appreciated.
Thank you.

Hi

What sound card are you using?

When you say you boot to DOS - are you still in the Windows environment? i.e.- are you going into the command prompt from Windows 98?

To go into DOS mode proper you need to Shutdown Windows completely - you can shutdown and restart in DOS mode - and if this is what you want - you must load DOS drivers for everything you want to use in DOS. This means DOS drivers for your games etc - this includes mouse, joysticks. You will need an autoexec.bat and a config.sys to load these up.

If you have an autoexec.bat and a config.sys in the root of the Windows 98 partition - (you can read them with Notepad when Windows 98 is up and running) check that they contain instructions for loading your audio. If they do - then you should hear sound when you play the game from within Windows 98. Remember some early DOS games - while okay for Windows 95, required a certain amount of 'tweaking' and patching to run in Windows 98. And of course some early DOS games will not run at all in XP.

sound problems??i just boot my laptop and its ok but it detects my sound card is ok

well i had a sound problem before i checked if the sound card is working it is so restarted my pc and it worked again