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Using Dosbox is usually the recommended approach for running old ms-dos based games on more modern systems.
[Edit] If you're set on getting the older box running, you will need the creative drivers for your specific sound card, rather than windows-detected drivers.
Quoted from Crash:I'm using the Creative drivers specifically for Win98SE from their website, and Windows sees it as a properly functioning device with volume sliders in the mixer for WAV, MIDI, line in, and CD audio. I've also tried the Microsoft drivers from 1999 which result in an error saying the sound card is missing or not configured correctly after verifying there are no resource conflicts...
There could be the possibility that the sound board is bad. Can you swap it with something else or have a way to verify that it tests good?
Quoted from Crash:Unfortunately I don't have a way to isolate the machine or the card, I bought the card as-is. But if it's a card issue DOS would have problems with it right? Everything in DOS works perfectly every time I boot to DOS mode. And sound in Windows doesn't work every time I boot to Windows. No flakiness or intermittentness between the two OSes.
Like timtim reiterated, I think it's my Compaq not being compatible. It does use an ISA riser card and of course what I read says that shouldn't be an issue. So I'm suspecting that or some compatibility issue with the Windows drivers and ISA bus controller. I'm much more confident I can just switch between the 2 sound devices depending on what OS I feel like using. My BIOS seems to have several options for turning things on and off.
I'm pretty sure you will need to explicitly disable onboard sound in the BIOS if you haven't already.
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