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First post, by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I'm having issues getting my CT2830 (which has been shelved for over a year) to work. The chips heat up so I can assume power delivery is taking place but Windows 98 isn't seeing the card. Ive checked and its jumpered for 220:0\5\2 which my bios should auto detect (when using manual there aren't even options to manipulate the 0 or 2 IRQ's, setting the lone available 5 to LEGACY ISA did not resolve the issue). I've also tried 2 different ISA slots. In windows I can't find it in device manager nor do i get a "detected new hardware" dialog prompt like normal. What makes me unsure as to if it's improperly configured is that one of my relatives pointed out what appears to be burned connection traces from both into and out of the silver chip in the following picture. I'm not 100 percent sure if those are burnt traces or not however. This is my first time installing a ISA soundcard so maybe I've made some stupid mistake. Any advice you guys could give me would be appreciated. The system i'm installing this into is a MSI MS-5156

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Reply 2 of 4, by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Ampera wrote:

Make sure your card is PnP. If it is not then you will have to use the non PnP drivers for the card, which would explain why it is not being detected by windows.

Mines not. Where would I look for these drivers and how would I go about installing them? I just grabbed the SB16 Win98 update drivers off the vogons driver library.

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Reply 3 of 4, by skitters

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TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Ive checked and its jumpered for 220:0\5\2

Maybe try the jumper settings at defaults.
According to Creative at http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowArticle.aspx?sid=5800

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Interrupt (IRQ): 2, [5], 7, 10
8-bit DMA Channel: 0, [1], 3
16-bit DMA Channel: [5], 6, 7
Joystick I/O Address: 200 Hex
Audio I/O Address: [220], 240, 260, 280 Hex
MPU-401 I/O Address: 300, [330] Hex
MPU-401 [Enabled] (MPUEN closed), Disabled (MPUEN open)
FM Synthesizer I/O Address: 388 Hex
CSP Chip Installed (enabled on CT2230C, disabled on CT2239C)

I've gotten Sound Blaster drivers from both vogonsdrivers.com and Creative
http://support.creative.com/Products/product_ … e=Sound+Blaster
I've never installed a non-PnP SB16 card in Windows but I've had other non-pnp hardware not show up until the drivers were installed.

Reply 4 of 4, by Ampera

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What it appears to be is that for DOS you don't install the PnP manager, and you just do the driver.

For Windows, go to add new hardware, and there should be two options, Sound Blaster 16, and Sound Blaster 16 PnP. This is how it is with the AWE32.