DOS ain't dead - ISA Sound Card

ISA Sound Card (Miscellaneous)

posted by Deniska , 14.02.2008, 00:03

> Tell us also something about your mobo, CPU and add on cards you use.

I have a Pentium III, 800 MHz, TNT2 GFX card, 2 hard drives, CD-RW and DVD+RW drive. I don't remember the chipset. I'll post it later. Another machine, where I experienced identical problems, was a Pentium ??, 450 MHz, TNT2 GFX card, 2 hard drives, 2 CD-ROM drives.

> I think there shouldn't be problem on most of older MB with intel chipset.

I haven't experienced any sound-related problems on my old Pentium Pro, 200 Mhz. I also don't get any problems on P4, 2.67 GHz, but that doesn't have any ISA slots and uses a PCI ESS card.

> I didn't need use ctxx drivers, mpxplay find it itself.

I only use CTCM to retrieve DMA and IRQ settings after playing around in BIOS.

> If you have newer mobo maybe due to some IRQ sharing?

Maybe. But if the same IRQ is used for hard disk access shouldn't I be getting lots of disk errors, for example, when recording sound? I don't get any errors.

> Try to set IRQ 5 reserved for legacy devices in setup

I have tried that in the past. When I do this, my sound card gets reconfigured for a different IRQ, usually 9, and the problem doesn't go away. Is it possible to force IRQ to remain at 5, while reserving IRQ 5 for legacy?

> and switch off unnecessary peripherals like USB.

No effect.

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Complete thread:

ISA Sound Card - Deniska, 13.02.2008, 00:11 (Miscellaneous)
- ISA Sound Card - Rugxulo, 13.02.2008, 01:51
  - ISA Sound Card - Deniska, 13.02.2008, 03:23
    - ISA Sound Card - Laaca, 13.02.2008, 07:41
      - ISA Sound Card - Deniska, 14.02.2008, 00:09
        ISA Sound Card - rr, 14.02.2008, 10:02
        ISA Sound Card - RayeR, 14.02.2008, 16:25
        ISA Sound Card - Deniska, 14.02.2008, 23:59
        ISA Sound Card - rr, 15.02.2008, 13:52
        ISA Sound Card - Deniska, 18.02.2008, 23:46
        ISA Sound Card - rr, 19.02.2008, 10:07
        ISA Sound Card - Deniska, 19.02.2008, 23:42
        ISA Sound Card - Deniska, 15.02.2008, 11:41
        ISA Sound Card - RayeR, 15.02.2008, 19:06
        ISA Sound Card - Laaca, 14.02.2008, 10:29
        ISA Sound Card - Deniska, 14.02.2008, 23:51
    - ISA Sound Card - Japheth, 13.02.2008, 08:34
- ISA Sound Card - RayeR, 13.02.2008, 11:13
  - ISA Sound Card - Deniska, 14.02.2008, 00:03
    - ISA Sound Card - RayeR, 14.02.2008, 16:30