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Hi there, i bougt Ess Solo1 pci audiocard. I cant find any closer info about this revision. it seems it has no sblink, no jumper for amplifier, no ide, no wavetable header. Does someone recognize it? see picture, google is not returning any solid info. thanx for help

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complain77 wrote on 2022-12-18, 00:29:

Hi there, i bougt Ess Solo1 pci audiocard. I cant find any closer info about this revision. it seems it has no sblink, no jumper for amplifier, no ide, no wavetable header. Does someone recognize it? see picture, google is not returning any solid info. thanx for help

This is not the common Terratec TTSOLO card, but an Audiowave AWPCI-SOLO as you might have noticed.

There's some solder pads to the right of the clock crystal that's most likely for SBLINK (PC/PCI).
There's no jumpers for amplifier since the board doesn't contain one, the solder pads are unpopulated.
There's no wavetable header, not even solder pads for it. You can use an external enclosure if you want to use a wavetable board, have a look at Serdashop for options.

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Reply 3 of 3, by Kamerat

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complain77 wrote on 2022-12-19, 00:30:

Hi thanx for info! And otherwise it will work as sny other ESS Solo1 card, with same drivers? Dos compatibility with sbpro without SBlink is ok? thank you

Same drivers will work. I'll recommend motherboards with VIA chipsets for best DOS compatibility on the Solo-1. The card will run in DDMA mode on earlier VIA chipsets and TDMA on the later V-Link based ones.

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