First post, by appiah4
- Rank
- l33t++
I installed this card in my 286, and it seems to be working fine for the most part.. except:
a) It is extremely noisy, I can even hear the CD-ROM spin up from its SPK-Out, as well as hard drive and ISA Bus activity
b) Its volume level is very silent. I have turned the onboard volume wheel all the way up but I still can't get audible sound with earphones
I think a) is just par for the course for such an old card in such an old motherboard, and b) is also normal because this card does not seem to have an onboard amplifier chip, and is meant to be used with active powered speakers instead of headphones (the ones I have are not very high impedence tbh but still significantly higher than what would be common in this card's heyday..)
If anyone else has one of these cards, I'd be glad if they could verify the issues I am having as normal. Otherwise I'll take it out and start poking at it 😀
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