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Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-22, 23:00

I'd try changing the IRQ and DMA that the YMF719 card is using. Try setting it to use IRQ 5 and DMA 0. If it fails, disable the parallel port and try IRQ 7. I have a card like this, and I remember having a much better time with lower IRQs

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 07:41

by krivulak

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OK, it seems that SETBLASTER is doing that, but I'm not still sure.

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 07:45

by krivulak

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd try changing the IRQ and DMA that the YMF719 card is using. Try setting it to use IRQ 5 and DMA 0. If it fails, disable the parallel port and try IRQ 7. I have a card like this, and I remember having a much better time with lower IRQs I can't set IRQ to 5 and DMA to 0, because it throws on me …

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 10:23

by alexanrs

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Change the parallel port to another IRQ. Try putting it into IRQ5 and port 0x278 (typical addresses for the second parallel port). Also, see if you do not have other devices using IRQ5, as I find it weird that the card would throw errors like that.

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 10:33

by carlostex

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

From what i could read here and from your PM to me I could almost bet your YMF-71x card is faulty. Get a new one. You can buy them completely new on eBay still. Look for Yamaha Audician 32. I have never had serious problems with these cards, but shit happens sometimes.

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 10:38

by krivulak

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't think it is broken... At the end, in Windows 95 worked excellently. But there is issue in the freakin' driver for DOS. It runs great in Windows 3.11. Also LPT1 is fixed for 378.

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 10:40

by jwt27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Try 220h/IRQ5/DMA1 for SB, and move WSS to 530h, IRQ11 or 7, DMA 0 or 3. Having SB on IRQ9 is non-standard and probably a bad idea. Anything on IRQ2 will also conflict with it. And I think the MPU401 port of YMF719 uses IRQ9 too regardless of what you specify in setupsa.

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 11:03

by krivulak

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

jwt27 wrote: Try 220h/IRQ5/DMA1 for SB Well, this happens...

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 11:40

by jwt27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's a resource conflict. Do you have a parallel port on IRQ5 perhaps? Try disabling anything that isn't absolutely necessary right now (LPT/COM ports) and pull out all expansion cards except the sound card. If that works, re-enable everything one by one to find the conflicting device.

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 12:00

by krivulak

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No, still nothing. And there is nothing to pull out without stopping computers function.

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 12:07

by jwt27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What are your system specs? Does MSD tell you anything about conflicts?

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 13:20

by jwt27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does the sound card work in Windows 3.11? Looks like both SB and WSS are on IRQ7 in Windows. (must say I didn't know MSD dumps the Win3 config files too) Also try editing opl3sa.ini and setting 220/5/1 for SB, then run SETUPSA /S.

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 13:31

by krivulak

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, in Windows 3.11 works beautifully, even without back noises, but for example. in Wolfenstein 3d it plays only a half of sound- I tried to edit it, but the setupsa still keeps setting it on SB IRQ 7

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 13:35

by jwt27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, in Windows 3.11 works beautifully, even without back noises, but for example. in Wolfenstein 3d it plays only a half of sound- I tried to edit it, but the setupsa still keeps setting it on SB IRQ 7 Even if you only run setupsa /s? Usually that won't complain about resource conflicts. May have …

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 13:43

by krivulak

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow, even that didn't help. It keeps setting it on IRQ 7... edit: Well, actually now it works like in Windows, but with back hiss - like untuned television. And Wolf is playing only half of each sound.

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 14:00

by krivulak

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, news. Sadly, bad. Commander Keen 5 crashed and spitted this: The last line is something like Volkov manager, but smaller and in my opinion better.

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 14:11

by jwt27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hiss/noise is a common complaint with the default settings. Try this for the SB mixer: FM = 7 WAVE = 1 LINE = 0 CD = 0 MASTER = 7 MIC = 0 And set everything in WSS mixer to 0 (if you don't intend to use that). In 3D control: Ymersion = 0 Mode = Hi-fi Preset = Manual Bass = 0 Treble = 0 Playing …

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 14:20

by krivulak

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No, I grabbed DOS 6.22 on internet, writed it to floppy and installed it, nothing more, nothing less. But from that last screen I gained suspition that something is broken hardware-wise. Also, the applications are crashing randomly with no apparent reason.

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 14:27

by jwt27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You could still try some different memory managers. HimemX and Jemm386 are good IMO. Granted, I don't know if they'll work with windows 3.1. Random crashing doesn't directly imply hardware failure under DOS... Usually you can blame the software side 😉

Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC

Posted on 2015-06-23, 14:41

by alexanrs

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The DOS driver isn't really a driver, but rather just some startup utility that initializes the card and configures a few things (like the mixer). It does not stay resident and shouldn't crash stuff by itself. Have you tried keeping it on IRQ7, but change the DMA to 0 or 1?

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