In Dos I did something similar a few years ago, using both card simultaneously. I would disable the poor/awful FM (OPL, ADlib etc) emulation of the sblive (port 388), and just keep it's digital sb16 emulation. Then, you don't need to disable ESS1868 and can use it for it's much more accurate OPL3 FM …

Hi guys, I have a Soyo-4SAW5 motherboard. So far I am happy with the board. The only thing that I want to do now is to update the bios. However it seems to be a non flashable bios chip. Can anyone tell me what kind of chip I need to buy that I can program and use with the baord? Any specific models …

SBlive cards work with any V3 - V4 drivers but not V5. Audigy only with V5. SBLive cards can work with V5 using this approach . I haven't run any extensive tests to determine the differences in accuracy, other than noticing that there were no slowdowns with V5. That's a great guide . Your right …

I've noticed using SB Live cards FM will not keep a steady tempo depending on the 'intensity' of the song. This can be heard in Doom and Duke3D in both DOS and Windows, even causing some in-game stutter. It depends on the drivers that are used. A SBLive using its own native drivers has this problem …

Extreme long shot, but does any of these two files seem to work ? thanks for the upload. Running cfg801b.exe gives the same error message "Fm801/FM1000 does not exist" Interestingly, running Dos801b.exe now gives a different message "DOS 801 cfg file error" it use to say "no FM801/1000 device". I …

When I run this in dosbox with latest munt and CM32L CONTROL ROMS the music works well but it has no SFX. On the first level when I fire the gun (electric zappa) there is no sound and munt log outputs: "MT32: playSysexWithoutFraming: Message is too short (2 bytes)" Does this game have SFX on a real …

brand /model of the motherboard? And a pic of the whole motherboard? Motherboard is GA-586ATMP rev 6. It's a bit obscured in the case , awkward to picture the full board without taking everything out. One thing I noticed, even though this is an old 430fx chipset, it says socket 7 on the white cpu …

I took two better pictures of the front and back of the card. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=95392 https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=95393 The FM801-AU chip on this card has 20 pins on each vertical side and 30 pins on each horizontal side (total 100 pins …

Also the 100 MHz bus on 430FX doesn't sound right. The chipset doesn't support that. That would lead to 50 MHz PCI bus which wouldn't be healthy. Are you sure it is really bus speed and not CPU speed? Many Intel motherboards assume that when you insert a module into the slot you are extending the …

Only if you can change the chache speed and waitstates in bios somehow. If you pu a fastes chip somewhere it does not do anything, if you can not run it faster. It is this way with CPU-s, memory, and cache. There is options for memory 2-1-1-1 or 3-2-2-2. and only to disable the cahce or enable it. …

I have revived an old Pentium 1 triton 430FX motherboard and noticed the tag ram is slower than the Pipeline Burst Cache. The PBC is 7ns but the tag ram is 15ns, is this normal or a bottleneck slowing down performance . Would I gain speed putting in a faster tag ram (this motherboard supports 100mhz …

I took two better pictures of the front and back of the card. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=95392 https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=95393 The FM801-AU chip on this card has 20 pins on each vertical side and 30 pins on each horizontal side (total 100 pins). …

I was given an old PCI soundcard, model# on card is CL-FM801-S2B. One of the chips on the card has Fortemedia FM801-AU written on it. I am trying to get it working in DOS 6.22, on a 440bx motherboard but can't get it detected. Running the two standard TSRs to initiate a FM801 card (CF801.exe and …