[ale] continuing SoundBlaster install problem....

[Courtney Thomas]

JD,

Thank you for your reply.

Will the ISA card not function properly unless IRQ 5 is set as legacy 
ISA rather than PNP in the BIOS ?

Cordially,

Courtney



J. D. Pearson wrote:
> 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:
>> 
>>
>>
>>>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:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>>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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