>    The problem: Trying to add sound for a friend and everything says good,
> ie: no  conflicts in device manager
> or anywhere else but only get midi support.Wav's get error message saying
> soundcard is busy when nothing else is happening

As Bob Wright said, try irq5 dma1 dma5; check _manually_ for
conflicts [sometimes Windows doesn't detects them, as
it was in recent post]; also, with sb16 if irq5 is busy
try irq7.

Another possibility is that some program loads at boot and keeps
sb to herself. This could be a modem answering machine, a paused
MP3 player or lots of other things. Try unloading all stuff that
you don't need and leave a clear taskbar, then attempt to use SB.

hope this helps

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