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SF16SB-MCD-02 creative sound blaster

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First post, by ratfink

Posted on 2011-06-18, 12:39

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Here's an sb16 I bought, but found problems with it in my p4 board, where another sb16 works fine.

I've not found this one on stason, it seems to have a lot of jumpers along the bottom. Wondering if anyone might know what they do, in case something has been set up wrong. I should probably retest it now I seem to have the motherboard set up right, but any information would be useful. 😀

Doesn't appear to have a ct number so I guess it could have been aimed at oem's?

Reply 1 of 8, by Markk

Posted on 2011-06-18, 13:18

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I remember a soundblaster 16 Multi-CD, with various CD-ROM interfaces. That might be it.

Reply 2 of 8, by ratfink

Posted on 2011-06-18, 13:39

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The nearest I've found is this, which is also a multi-cd sb16 but not the same layout and the jumpers are labelled differently:

http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/sound-cards-multi … R-16-MCD-A.html

Reply 3 of 8, by TheMAN

Posted on 2011-06-18, 19:21

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wow that is a weird card it's probably closer to the CT1750 than the CT2230... but it looks like it is a knock off card... creative doesn't build the cards in that style

Reply 4 of 8, by ratfink

Posted on 2011-06-19, 09:30

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TheMAN wrote:
... but it looks like it is a knock off card... creative doesn't build the cards in that style

I hadn't thought of that. Eyeballing the pictures on stason, it could be a mediaforte card. This one has a similar name and jumper labelling though it's obviously not the same card:

http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/sound-cards-multi … rd-SF16FMP.html

I had thought those creative chips made it a creative card 😜.

Reply 5 of 8, by TheMAN

Posted on 2011-06-19, 18:49

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I think you're on the right track. Compare it with the CT1750 to determine what the other set of jumpers might do and just try to figure it out from there

Reply 6 of 8, by sprcorreia

Posted on 2012-08-01, 14:45

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That's a Media Forte card. They used lots of Creative components, sometimes Roland and ICS for wavetable...

The cards were called SoundForte, hence the SF in the card name.

Reply 7 of 8, by Anonymous Coward

Posted on 2012-08-02, 14:34

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Is there a chance it might be less noisy than a real creative board?

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Reply 8 of 8, by Malik

Posted on 2012-08-02, 14:44

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ratfink, I'm confused... you tried this in a P4 - Pentium 4 - motherboard? Is that an industrial motherboard? Or a rare conventional ISA-"slotted" motherboard? Or with some sort of PCI to ISA bridge?

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