[ale] continuing SoundBlaster install problem....

[J. D.]

That has been my experience Courtney. I have never encountered that
particular symptom that you are experiencing but to properly set up an ISA
card its corresponding IRQ setting in the bios needs to be toggled from PCI
to ISA. Normally this is IRQ 5 or sometimes IRQ 5 and 9 set to ISA. This
stuff only applies to old motherboards with ISA slots though.

Best regards,

J. D.

On 3/2/06, Courtney Thomas <cc.thomas at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> 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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