Have a read of this....

https://www.techarp.com/bios-guide/

texterted wrote on 2020-04-11, 13:20:

Have a read of this....

https://www.techarp.com/bios-guide/

Which guide? You listed a whole bunch of guides? I want to know whether i can plug an ISA card into this PCI Socket 370 motherboard.

Even boards without actual ISA slots have an internal ISA or ISA-like bus for compatibility purposes . The BIOS settings you mentioned are for that .

If your board does not have ISA slots, you cannot use ISA cards . An ISA card will not, thankfully, even fit in a PCI slot .

Yes what darry said ! The board does not have any ISA slots so an Sb16 ISA card will not work. Those BIOS settings for ISA PNP and leftovers for a different board that could have ISA slots or certain onboard devices.

Horun wrote on 2020-04-11, 15:33:

Yes what darry said ! The board does not have any ISA slots so an Sb16 ISA card will not work. Those BIOS settings for ISA PNP and leftovers for a different board that could have ISA slots or certain onboard devices.

Is there a dual socket 370 motherboard with isa and agp support?

darry wrote on 2020-04-11, 15:29:

Even boards without actual ISA slots have an internal ISA or ISA-like bus for compatibility purposes . The BIOS settings you mentioned are for that .

If your board does not have ISA slots, you cannot use ISA cards . An ISA card will not, thankfully, even fit in a PCI slot .

Thanks for the info. Guess i sell this motherboard.

iVirtualZero wrote on 2020-04-11, 15:37:

Horun wrote on 2020-04-11, 15:33:

Yes what darry said ! The board does not have any ISA slots so an Sb16 ISA card will not work. Those BIOS settings for ISA PNP and leftovers for a different board that could have ISA slots or certain onboard devices.

Is there a dual socket 370 motherboard with isa and agp support?

Abit BP6 is one dual 370 with ISA and AGP. There are others but most are server boards, Tyan made one iirc.

iVirtualZero wrote on 2020-04-11, 13:05:

Hi i’m new to building old rigs and since my motherboard doesn’t have any ISA Slots. I want to know what these settings do on my mobo? PC IRG, PCI DMA, PCI UMB when i select one of these options for example. it gives me a list of IRQ 3 to 15 Used By ISA. What does this mean? I’m currently bidding for a SB16 ISA card. But will i be able to use the card on pci through those settings?

My mobo is an ASUS CUV4X-D a server board with 2 cpu sockets agp and pci ports.

[Manual](https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock370 … /cuv4xd-100.pdf)

🤣, that's a really funny. A mainboard without ISA slots, but you have functionality to reserve resources for ISA cards.

AND no, you can't put an isa card into the mainboard, when it has no ISA slots.
But maybe you can use the SB16 ISA card elsewhere.
😁

CoffeeOne wrote on 2020-04-11, 17:01:

LOL, that's a really funny. A mainboard without ISA slots, but you have functionality to reserve resources for ISA cards. […]
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iVirtualZero wrote on 2020-04-11, 13:05:

Hi i’m new to building old rigs and since my motherboard doesn’t have any ISA Slots. I want to know what these settings do on my mobo? PC IRG, PCI DMA, PCI UMB when i select one of these options for example. it gives me a list of IRQ 3 to 15 Used By ISA. What does this mean? I’m currently bidding for a SB16 ISA card. But will i be able to use the card on pci through those settings?

My mobo is an ASUS CUV4X-D a server board with 2 cpu sockets agp and pci ports.

[Manual](https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock370 … /cuv4xd-100.pdf)

🤣, that's a really funny. A mainboard without ISA slots, but you have functionality to reserve resources for ISA cards.

AND no, you can't put an isa card into the mainboard, when it has no ISA slots.
But maybe you can use the SB16 ISA card elsewhere.
😁

Yes it was frustrating. Couldn’t figure out why my copy of Screamer wasn’t getting any sound. Then i learned what ISA is. And then it all made sense.