Samudra, have you tried removing all other cards in your Nice EISA board and just running with the Stealth32? Please let me know when you eventually get around to dumping the BIOSon that card for me to test. Don't hurry yourself though, because I have relocated my hardware to Toronto as of yet.
I ended up buying another ET4000W32P board. It's a Cardex Challenger 9302. The behaviour is identical to the Hercules ET4000W32P board. I also have another Hercules S3 Trio64 product that exhibits the same problems.
To recap one of my older posts that describes the problem in detail, some of my faster DRAM cards (ET4000W32P, Trio64) are not compatible with many of my PNP soundcards on the Nice EISA board (I currently have no other VLB 486 boards to test on, so I am not sure if the specific motherboard or chipset are part of the problem). If both cards are present, the machine fails to boot, and causes the CMOS to issue an SOS of some sort.
All of these VLB VGA cards will work properly in my Nice board, provided that certain PNP soundcards are not present.
PNP Soundcards tried:
Turtle Beach Tropez Plus (CS4232) = FAILED
Generic OPL3-SAX = FAILED
Aopen AW37 (CS4235) = WORKS
SB AWE64 = I think it FAILED, but I can't remember
note: all of these soundcards work fine if I swap in different VGA cards, such as Mach64 or S3 968.
Non-PNP cards that worked:
SB Pro 2.0
SB16 ASP CT1770
SB AWE32 CT2760
Unfortunately I don't own any cards from companies other than creative labs that aren't pnp.
In anycase, for the time being I am going to stick with the CS4235 card. I would much rather have fast VGA than ICS wavetable sound. But I still feel bad about wasting a card as nice as Tropez Plus.
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