Just a site notice - if you're mostly using that Pentium II for Dos games, 512MB RAM is far too much and can cause troubles with some games, 128M is usually a normal maximum with 64MB RAM being the optimum.
Also by using EMM386=RAM HIGHSCAN in config.sys you should be able to free up a bit more conventional memory, though the HIGHSCAN setting often causes troubles with later versions of that program and Pentium class machines (those being hang-ups at loading after starting the PC). There're few other tricks also to shuffle loadable things around and optimize memory to be freed up at maximum possible size, one of them being loading MSCDEX.EXE with the /E switch for it to place most of loadable program code into extended memory, for example.
About the Soundblaster 128, try setting SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 and if you have a plug & play setting program from the drivers CD with that soundcard, try running it and configure the plug & play settings to load at these values above during each start. However you would have much less troubles altogether if you get either Soundblaster Live! which does offer 99% compatibility with early Soundblaster standard (99% because of slight sound disagreements with very few games only) and Dos drivers for that, or a Soundblaster 16 PCI which is the standard.
However those two posts of you and me belong either into a separate thread in Troubleshooting than here.
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