[ale] continuing SoundBlaster install problem....

[J. D. Pearson]

Wow an isa card. On some of those you would need to jumper the card for 
a free irq such as irq5 if it is isa. If that is the case then usually 
the bios needs to have irq5 set for legacy ISA, and not pci. It would 
normally be under the PNP/PCI Configuration menu or something similar in 
the bios.

Courtney Thomas wrote:

>Zeb,
>
>Thanks for the kind offer.
>
>Where are you and the book ?
>
>Appreciatively,
>
>Courtney
>
>
>
>zeb wrote:
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>>I have a book, published by Osborne:  "SoundBlaster, the Official Book".
>>It has information on the SoundBlaster 2.0, including some pin information.  I 
>>have  not studied it in quite a while and I want to keep it.  If you are 
>>interested enough to come here and read it  (making whatever notes you want) 
>>I will be happy to let you do that.  I do not want to sell or lend it.
>>Let me know...
>>
>>Zeb
>>
>>On Thursday 02 March 2006 15:15, Courtney Thomas wrote:
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>>>I now have the SoundBlaster 2.0 card installed and the drivers load
>>>correctly but the sound coming out of the speakers with maximum volume
>>>is barely audible.
>>>
>>>Ruling out speakers, CDROM and CD as being the problem,... when the
>>>speakers are plugged directly into the CDROM player, the sound is OK.
>>>
>>>I have connected a cable with 4 pin plugs from the CDROM's analog
>>>connection which apparently cannot be done incorrectly since the two
>>>interior pins are both ground.
>>>
>>>That leaves the CDROM-to-SoundBlaster connection which is marked line
>>>out on the card and is an expected 4 pins. I have tried this connection
>>>both ways, i.e. rotating the connector 180 deg. and still no sound.
>>>
>>>I don't have any docs on the card and Creative has nothing on it's site,
>>>it being legacy and costing them a fortune to leave the docs online  :-)
>>>
>>>Anyway, there are several jumper pins on the card whose purpose I don't
>>>know. FM and VOICE are not jumpered. Of 22X and 24X, 22X is jumpered.
>>>The 2 interior [of 4 total] pins marked Microphone are jumpered.
>>>And...there are several other pin sets, some jumpered, some not, but
>>>they are not functionally described with onboard markings.
>>>
>>>If anyone has one of these ISA SoundBlaster cards functioning, I'd
>>>appreciate the necessary missing revelation  :-)
>>>
>>>Cordially,
>>>Courtney
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