[ale] continuing SoundBlaster install problem....

[Courtney Thomas]

Thank you for your insight, but unfortunately it made no difference in 
my case.

I'm guessin' the CD-to-Soundcard cable is wrong.

Cordially,
Courtney

J. D. wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>      >>>>_______________________________________________
>      >>>>Ale mailing list
>      >>>>Ale at ale.org <mailto:Ale at ale.org>
>      >>>>http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>      >>>>
>      >>>>
>      >>>
>      >>>_______________________________________________
>      >>>Ale mailing list
>      >>>Ale at ale.org <mailto:Ale at ale.org>
>      >>> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >>
>      >>_______________________________________________
>      >>Ale mailing list
>      >> Ale at ale.org <mailto:Ale at ale.org>
>      >>http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >
>      >
>     _______________________________________________
>     Ale mailing list
>     Ale at ale.org <mailto:Ale at ale.org>
>     http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale