AC97 Sound support in DOS games

I want to play some games and emulators in pure MS-DOS and/or FreeDOS using my KT3 UltraARU, but it doesn´t have any of that "DOS Legacy Audio" settings that appear in other mainboards' BIOS. Since there are no DOS specific audio drivers for the AC97, how do I get my computer sounding in a DOS environment ?

Those autoexec setting are valid when you can "activate" the DOS SoundBlaster emulation feature in the BIOS. The problem is that there's no way to activate that BIOS feature. I dont know if it is discarded by the BIOS programmers as DOS is obsolete nowadays. But, if you wish to do some emulator stuff with your computer, maybe DOS is the best and more stable choice. That's what I want to do, but MSI BIOSes do not let me use the integrated AC97 chip in pure DOS mode.
The question is: is there any workaround for my problem ?
Anyway, thanks for your interest.
Antonio

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