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Hi folks, I am a first time poster here, but I am a long time old school gamer. […]
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Hi folks,
I am a first time poster here, but I am a long time old school gamer.

I am interested in hearing from someone who has experience with the Asus P3C-E i820 motherboard (yes, I know it has rambus, but the price of it is very doable these days) and I am particularly interested in this board because of THAT Yamaha, yes THAT Yamaha YMF 744 onboard (amazing that a chipset designer had a clue to put such a quality chip on board that has tremendous flexibility) and it's real OPL3 chip.

I am interested in this board above the Abit BX6 rev 2.0, which has the SB-Link for two reasons: 1) the support of real 133 Mhz front side bus, and 2) the compatibility of running my Voodoo 5 5500 at AGP spec of 66 Mhz (unlike the Geforce 256 DDR, my understanding is that the Voodoo 5 5500 won't handle the 133 / 89, AGP 2/3 divider when running the BX at 133 Mhz front side bus.

So, my question is does the Yamaha onboard the Asus P3C-e support REAL mode DOS?

Regards,
photios

Have you done a search for the audio drivers?

Been thinking of getting this mobo too since I have spare rambus sticks after my various rambus builds and putting a powerleap adapter with a 1.4ghz tualitin cpu in it 😀

imho the i820 based system are quite snappy, I have a Dell Precision 220 with dual PIII 1ghz coppermine's in and with win2000 and quite usable for everyday tasks

You can sill get the win9x drivers from asus support site...I bet it install DOS drivers too

You can get drivers here:

http://www.yamahamultimedia.com/yec/helpcente … card_Whelp.html

or on Asus's site for the P3C-E:

http://support.asus.com/download/download.asp … SLanguage=en-us

Just go to the download section for the P3C-E under Win 9x.

Well looking at the driver download under Windows 9x on the asus site it doesn't have the REAL mode DOS audio driver...and there is no DOS driver in the DOS section. So I guess I'm wondering now if it'll even work right under DOS correctly...The board has an ISA slot and a PCI to ISA bridge...so I don't see anything holding it back of why it would NOT work...but need someone to confirm. It would be a shame to incorporate the onboard audio chip and not have it do everything it can do.

photios wrote:

Well looking at the driver download under Windows 9x on the asus site it doesn't have the REAL mode DOS audio driver...and there is no DOS driver in the DOS section. So I guess I'm wondering now if it'll even work right under DOS correctly...The board has an ISA slot and a PCI to ISA bridge...so I don't see anything holding it back of why it would NOT work...but need someone to confirm. It would be a shame to incorporate the onboard audio chip and not have it do everything it can do.

Yep, just use the pure DOS driver from the Yamaha site and let us know how it goes....I'm very close to getting this board too 😀

Those OEM drivers from Yamaha's website should work fine as they do for my PCI cards based on the 724 and 744 chipsets 😉

Do you have a P3C-E or P3C-S with this Audio onboard?