thanks, that worked! you're a genius, as is your bro :)

p.s. I'm even more glad I was able to get it working
(thanks to your help of course) because I notice the
music &audio are much better than the PCE/TG16
HuCard/Turbochip versions.

^__^

> Yesterday the same happended to my brother, maybe some spyware or virus is
> deleting AUTOEXEC.NT file, we solve
> it copying such file from my machine.
> I don't know how to upload here, so you can cut/paste this into a AUTOEXEC.NT
> file, and move to \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\
>
> @echo off
> lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe
> lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir
> lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx
> SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330 T3
>
> Hope it helps.
>