Bastiaan,
From, "Upgrading and Repairing PCs," 6th Edition, by Scott Mueller:
Default Sound Blaster 16 Resource Assignments (Table 12.2):
Audio
IRQ 5
I/O Ports: 220h-233h
16-bit DMA: DMA 5
8-bit DMA: DMA 1
Midi Port:
I/O Ports: 330h-331h
FM Synthesizer:
I/O Ports: 388h-38Bh
Game Port:
I/O Ports: 200h-207h
"If your system is Plug and Play (PnP), you can use the Device Manager in
Windows 95 to assist with the configuration of the devices in your system.
Resolving Interrupt Conflicts. The audio portion of a sound card has a
default interrupt request (IRQ) setting, but also supports any of several
alternate interrupts. ... [Y]ou should endeavor to leave the sound card at
the default setting ... and change other adapters where possible. Atypical
sound card like the Sound Blaster 16 will support IRQ settings of 2, 5, 7,
or 10, although IRQ 5 is the default."
Table 12.3 contains recommended IRQ assignments with Sound Blaster installed.
"... IRQ 5 ... is normally used by a second Parallel Port (LPT:2), which most
systems do not have, making this IRQ available. The alternate settings ...
are 2, 7, or 10. ... 7 would cause a conflict since normally the first
Parallel Port (LPT:1) uses that setting. IRQ 10 is clearly available to any
16-bit adapter card ... . IRQ 2 is also available, since all motherboards ar
rewired such that IRQ 9 appears as IRQ 2 for any adapter cards. In other
words, you could set the Sound Blaster to IRQ 2 and the system would actually
see it as IRQ 9."
And it goes on and on .... .
HTH
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
Who knows nothing about sound cards; therefore, can speak freely about them.
Bastiaan wrote:
. > Hi Thomas,
. > it seems possible to get the thing working.
. > First I started to get the thing working in Win95... not easy and not
. > possible with the CD-ROM supplied with the soundcard.
. > The CD is "autorun" and stopped after concluding that my PC is not fast
. > enough.
. > Win95 could not handle the installation either... plug and pray @#$%$#@
. > However I managed to substract the installation and driver files from
. > the CD... after a lot of trial and error the card finaly worked well in
. > Win95. This means the card is OK.
. > Also on the CD was a directory DOS-drivers but packed in .cab files of
. > which I was not able to open them...
. > A friend of mine had a CD about one year older and there they were: the
. > driver and installation files... I copied them but still no luck.
. > One of the problems is that I don't know how to tell DOS the PCI-slot
. > portnumber and PCI-port IRQ... because I don't know the PCI-portadress
. > and the PCI IRQ.
. > At my friends home we managed to have the soundblastercard working in
. > DOS, just DOS, no Win95 installed... so it is possible!
. > I copied Sndscape.ini and went home this evening... no luck the PCI-port
. > numbers were for his ports... not mine.
. > At my PC the card is working when I first load Win95 (the SB-card is then
. > installed by win95, go back by the DOS-prompt ( the SB-card is still
. > installed) and now the SB-card is using the settings from win95.
. > So it seems possible to get the SB-card functioning in DOS. ;-> :-)
. > I tried to find the .ini details in win95, but no luck untill now and my
. > friend is going into hollydays... so perhaps you have to have a bit more
. > patience.
. > If, one day, I have the details I will give them to you plus the
. > neccessary drivers and thinks like that.
. > Does ANYONE on the list have ideas on "how to detect the PCIPort number
. > and IRQ of the used PCI-slot ????"
. > In the ini file my friend has:
. > PCIPort=d800 and PCIIRQ=9
. > Best Regards, Bastiaan
