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Working ISA and PCI sound cards together.

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First post, by sketchus

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Hi,

I vaguely remember this working a few years back but I wanted to just check to make sure I'm not doing anything ridiculous...

So far I my plan is to run my PCI Turtle Beach A3D 2.0 as my main Windows 98 card.

I also have a Yamaha Audician 32 Plus as my ISA card, that I plan for DOS use.

Now here's the thing, it's been a long time since I've done this, I remember in Windows 98 you can fairly easily just select which card you want to use, DOS is where I'm blanking. Is it best practice to install all drivers, or only the ones required per usage environment?

Apologies if it's more simple than I'm making out.

Reply 1 of 3, by Shponglefan

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You can do it either way. DOS can accommodate multiple sound cards; it's just a matter of configuring hardware resources to avoid a conflict.

Though in this case, it sounds like you want to only use the Audician 32 in DOS, in which case I would only install the drivers for that particular card.

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Reply 2 of 3, by chinny22

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For Dos I prefer to have multiple configurations loading either the ISA or PCI card.
But it's all doable and comes down to personal choice.

Reply 3 of 3, by sketchus

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Thanks all.

Interestingly windows after installation recognised the Audician but not the Voodoo 2, after installing the drivers however it's all working as it should.

As a side note, I still think A3D is seriously impressive technology.

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