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Failed to setup ISA soundcard on new Commell P4LA mobo (Announce)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 06.12.2007, 12:50

As I mentioned before, I ordered this new mobo - one of few with ISA slot and C2D support. I hoped that ISA slot will guarantee smooth run of my old good ISA soundcard under DOS which I used on previous mobo Abit BX133 Raid and olders. It's ESS1868 SB compatible with 1MB MIDI ROM bank and I could run most of games and demos on it before.

Currently I have problem with this ISA soundcard under DOS. When I run the ESS configuration utility it successfully recognize it and set proper IO, DMA, IRQ but I cannot hear sound. All programs hangs when playback should start (I can hear only a silent pop/click sound when DSP was initialized) or don't recognize soudcard. It seems that I/O ports decoding works fine because I can set mixer options and other things in DSP. But maybe problem in IRQ/DMA.
What I tried:
a) use various DMA 0,1,3 and IRQs 5,7
b) set IRQ 5/7 to be reserved for legacy card in SETUP/Plug&Play options (to prevent other PCI devices use this IRQ)
c) disable APIC in SETUP
d) disable ACPI in SETUP
e) under Windows98 works only sound from windows apps not from DOS apps
f) I tried original Creative SoundBlaster AWE64 ISA but with same result (driver initialization OK but hangs/no sound)

Any idea what to try else? How can I separately test function of IRQ and DMA? I never programmed any DOS soud application (I only made alternative mixer for ESS card but it use only IO ports).

Maybe this simply mean that P4 and later systems are not compatible for DOS sound anymore and emulators are the only way. But I wanted to try all possibilities before I give up Anyway thib board have some other + like lots of COM ports...

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Complete thread:

• Failed to setup ISA soundcard on new Commell P4LA mobo - RayeR, 06.12.2007, 12:50 (Announce)
  • Failed to setup ISA soundcard on new Commell P4LA mobo - Japheth, 06.12.2007, 14:08
    • Failed to setup ISA soundcard on new Commell P4LA mobo - RayeR, 06.12.2007, 14:55
  • Failed to setup ISA soundcard on new Commell P4LA mobo - tikbalang, 06.12.2007, 14:26
    • Failed to setup ISA soundcard on new Commell P4LA mobo - RayeR, 06.12.2007, 15:01
      • Failed to setup ISA soundcard on new Commell P4LA mobo - tikbalang, 09.12.2007, 07:05