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First post, by zerker

Posted on 2017-08-26, 15:37

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Hello folks. Recently I picked up a Unisys CWD-4002, and a Audician 32+ sound card to go with it. And judging by some other threads, I'm not the only one either 😀. However, I'm having some reliability issues with the card/machine combination.

The card itself appears fine, and seemed to work pefectly when I tested it in my other retro PC (Pentium III era). However, in the machine I bought it for, I see some intermittant failures. Sometimes digital sound works, but FM does not. Sometimes I get the reverse. MIDI works sometimes and not others either. Occasionally, the setupsa application even says 'OPL3-SAx board not present!', but that's more rare than the partial working scenarios.

So I'm thinking there's something going on with connectivity with the ISA card, especially since it is hooked up via a riser. However, I've cleaned the contacts on both the card and riser and reseated both a couple times to hopefully 'clean' the sockets. I did at one point manage to fit my AWE64 in the Unisys machine and had reliability issues with that TOO, so it certainly points to the ISA slot on the Unisys.

However, I'm not entirely sure what to do to isolate it further and/or fix it. I'm guessing it's time to do continuity testing between the card and bottom socket? Any other suggestions?

My system config, for reference, is:

Autoexec.bat

1PROMPT $P$G
2SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS;C:\APPS;C:\APPS\INFOZIP
3SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
4SET BLASTER=A220 I5  D1 T4
5C:\OPL3SAX\SETUPSA.EXE /S
6C:\DRIVERS\CTMOUSE\CTMOUSE.EXE

Config.sys

1DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
2DOS=HIGH
3FILES=30
4STACKS=9,256

And for additional reference, a Navrátil Software System Information report:

1                     Navrátil Software System Information
2                                Version 0.60.45
3                                  Report File
4                           Sunday, 2017-08-20 11:47
5
6  ███████████████████████████General Information████████████████████████████
7  ║ Computer       PC-AT or compatible, ISA                                ║
8  ║ Processor      Intel i486DX2-S, 50 MHz, V86 mode, 2/4/19/19            ║
9  ║ Co-Processor   Internal, 50 MHz, 3/3/100/30                            ║
10  ║ BIOS           Award Modular BIOS v4.50G, Award Software, Inc., 07/26► ║
11  ║ Video          Cirrus Logic SVGA 1 MB, VESA VBE 1.2, Secondary: None   ║
12  ║ Memory         16 MB, 640 KB, 15360 KB, XMS(3.0,15296 KB), no EMS      ║
13  ║ Drives         HDD1: 335 MB, HDD2: None                                ║
14  ║ Oper. System   MS-DOS version 6.0                                      ║
15  ║ Mouse          PS/2, 2 buttons, version 7.05, IRQ: 12                  ║
16  ║ Input Devices  AT Enhanced Keyboard (101 key), Ncsi, Joystick(s)       ║
17  ║ Ports          2 Serial, 0 Parallel, 1 Game                            ║
18  ║ CMOS           FDD1: 1.44 MB 3½", FDD2: None                           ║
19  ║ Network        Not Detected                                            ║
20  ║ Multimedia     Sound Blaster or compatible sound card                  ║
21  ║ Software       Mouse Driver                                            ║
22  ║ Other          Not Detected                                            ║
23  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
24
25  █████████████████████████████Computer Details█████████████████████████████
26  ║─ General ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
27  ║ Computer Type     PC-AT or compatible                                  ║
28  ║ Computer Name     Unknown or Noname                                    ║
29  ║ Model             FCh                                                  ║
30  ║ Submodel          01h                                                  ║
31  ║ Revision          00h                                                  ║
32  ║─ Mainboard ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
33  ║ Bus(es)           ISA                                                  ║
34  ║ Chipset           VT82C505 (Method 2)                                  ║
35  ║ Manufacturer      First International Computer, Inc. (Method 2)        ║
36  ║ Type              FIC 486-PVT/486-VIP-IO                               ║
37  ║ System Bus Speed  25 MHz (multiplier 2.0x) (Method 1)                  ║
38  ║─ ISA Devices ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
39  ║ No Devices/Cards Found                                                 ║
40  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
41
42  ████████████████████████████Processor Details█████████████████████████████
43  ║ Main Processor     Intel i486DX2-S, 50 MHz                             ║
44  ║ CPU ID             00000435h, Family 4, Model 3, Level 1/35 (CPUID)    ║
45  ║ Stepping           5 - aB0/aC0, SL Enhanced                            ║
46  ║ CPU Vendor         GenuineIntel                                        ║
47  ║ CPU Name           5♦♥5♦♥5♦♥                                           ║
48  ║ CPU Serial Number  Not Supported                                       ║
49  ║ Run Mode           Virtual 8086                                        ║
50  ║ CPU Type           Original OEM Processor                              ║
51  ║ 1st Level Cache    8 KB Write-Through (Method 1)                       ║
52  ║ 2nd Level Cache    n/a                                                 ║
53  ║ 3rd Level Cache    n/a                                                 ║
54  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
55
56  ████████████████████████████Processor Details█████████████████████████████
57  ║─ CPU Features ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
58  ║ √ FPU on chip                        · Page Attribute Table            ║
59  ║ √ Enhanced Virtual 8086 Mode (VME)   · 36-bit Page Size Extension      ║
60  ║ · Debugging Extensions               · Processor Serial Number         ║

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61  ║ · Page Size Extensions               · CLFLUSH instruction             ║
62  ║ · Time Stamp Counter                 · Debug Trace and EMON Store      ║
63  ║ · Model Specific Registers           · Internal ACPI Support           ║
64  ║ · Physical Address Extension         · MMX instructions                ║
65  ║ · Machine Check Exception            · FXSAVE/FXRSTOR instructions     ║
66  ║ · CMPXCHG8B instruction              · Streaming SIMD Extensions       ║
67  ║ · CPU contains enabled APIC on chip  · Streaming SIMD Extensions 2     ║
68  ║ · SYSENTER/SYSEXIT instructions      · Self-Snoop                      ║
69  ║ · Memory Type Range Registers        · Multi-Threading Technology      ║
70  ║ · Page Global Extensions             · Thermal Monitor Supported       ║
71  ║ · Machine Check Architecture         · IA-64 Processor                 ║
72  ║ · CMOVcc instructions                · Pending Break Event             ║
73  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
74
75  ███████████████████████████Co-Processor Details███████████████████████████
76  ║ Co-Processor Type       Internal, 50 MHz                               ║
77  ║ Communication Protocol  32-bit                                         ║
78  ║ Co-Processor Emulated   No                                             ║
79  ║ Emulation Software      n/a                                            ║
80  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
81
82  ███████████████████████████████BIOS Details███████████████████████████████
83  ║ BIOS Type              Award Modular BIOS v4.50G                       ║
84  ║ BIOS Manufacturer      Award Software, Inc.                            ║
85  ║ BIOS Date              07/26/95                                        ║
86  ║ BIOS Version           n/a                                             ║
87  ║─ BIOS Features ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
88  ║ Flash BIOS             Present                                         ║
89  ║ Green PC/Energy Star   Present                                         ║
90  ║ BIOS32 Services        Not Present                                     ║
91  ║ Plug and Play Support  Not Present                                     ║
92  ║ DMI Support            Not Present                                     ║
93  ║ SMBIOS Support         Not Present                                     ║
94  ║ APM Support            Not Present                                     ║
95  ║ ACPI Support           Not Present                                     ║
96  ║ ACFG Support           Not Present                                     ║
97  ║ PCI IRQ Routing Table  Not Present                                     ║
98  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
99
100  ███████████████████████████████BIOS Details███████████████████████████████
101  ║─ ROM Modules ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
102  ║ Address Range  Size    Type                                        PnP ║
103  ║ C000h - C7FFh   32 KB  SVGA BIOS                                       ║
104  ║ E800h - EBFFh   16 KB  System ROM                                      ║
105  ║ EC00h - EFFFh   16 KB  System ROM                                      ║
106  ║─ Plug and Play Devices ────────────────────────────────────────────────║
107  ║ This is not Plug and Play System                                       ║
108  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
109
110  ██████████████████████████████Video Details███████████████████████████████
111  ║ Video Adapter            SVGA                                          ║
112  ║ Monitor Type             VGA Analog Color                              ║
113  ║ Secondary Video Adapter  None                                          ║
114  ║ Secondary Monitor Type   None                                          ║
115  ║────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
116  ║ Video Chipset            Cirrus CL-GD5424 (Method 1)                   ║
117  ║ Video Card               Unknown or Noname                             ║
118  ║ Video Memory Size        1 MB of DRAM                                  ║
119  ║ Video Card Bus           ISA                                           ║
120  ║ Video RAMDAC Type        Cirrus Internal CL24 TrueColor                ║
121  ║────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
122  ║ Video BIOS Manufacturer  Quadtel Corp., Cirrus Logic                   ║
123  ║ Video BIOS Model         CL-GD54xx                                     ║
124  ║ Video BIOS Version       1.41                                          ║
125  ║ Video BIOS Date          01/07/94                                      ║
126  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
127
128  ██████████████████████████████Video Details███████████████████████████████
129  ║─ VESA Information ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
130  ║ VESA Support           Present (VESA Memory Size 1 MB)                 ║
131  ║ VESA VBE Version       1.2                                             ║
132  ║ VESA Manufacturer      Cirrus Logic GD-54xx VGA                        ║
133  ║ VESA Power Management  Present, VBE/PM version 1.0                     ║
134  ║ Display Data Channel   Not Present                                     ║
135  ║ Accelerator Functions  Not Present                                     ║
136  ║ Audio Interface        Not Present                                     ║
137  ║ Flat Panel Interface   Not Present                                     ║
138  ║ Cursor Interface       Not Present                                     ║
139  ║ Graphics System Conf.  Not Present                                     ║
140  ║─ VESA VBE 2.0 Information ─────────────────────────────────────────────║
141  ║ OEM Software Version   n/a                                             ║
142  ║ Vendor Name            n/a                                             ║
143  ║ Product Name           n/a                                             ║
144  ║ Product Revision       n/a                                             ║
145  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
146
147  ██████████████████████████████Video Details███████████████████████████████
148  ║─ 3D Graphics Acceleration ─────────────────────────────────────────────║
149  ║ Internal 3D Accelerator  No Known Found                                ║
150  ║ External 3D Accelerator  No Known Found                                ║
151  ║─ Monitor Information ──────────────────────────────────────────────────║
152  ║ Monitor Name             n/a                                           ║
153  ║ Monitor Type             n/a                                           ║
154  ║ Viewable Image           n/a                                           ║
155  ║ Serial Number            n/a                                           ║
156  ║ Date of Manufacture      n/a                                           ║
157  ║ Max. Horizontal Size     n/a                                           ║
158  ║ Max. Vertical Size       n/a                                           ║
159  ║ Display Type             n/a                                           ║
160  ║ Voltage Level            n/a                                           ║
161  ║ Input Signal Type        n/a                                           ║
162  ║ Gamma Factor             n/a                                           ║
163  ║ DPMS Support             n/a                                           ║
164  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
165
166  ██████████████████████████████Video Details███████████████████████████████
167  ║─ Additional Video Information ─────────────────────────────────────────║
168  ║ Video BIOS Segment     C000h                                           ║
169  ║ Video BIOS Size        32 KB                                           ║
170  ║ Scan Lines             400                                             ║
171  ║ Character Size         9 x 16                                          ║
172  ║ EGA Switches           0110                                            ║
173  ║ CGA Cursor Emulation   Disabled                                        ║
174  ║ Current Video Mode     3                                               ║
175  ║ Video Segment Address  B800h                                           ║
176  ║ Video Page Size        4 KB                                            ║
177  ║ CRTC Port              3D4h                                            ║
178  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
179
180  ██████████████████████████████Memory Details██████████████████████████████
181  ║─ General ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
182  ║ Total Memory  16 MB, Memory over 1 MB 15360 KB                         ║
183  ║ HMA Exists    Yes                                                      ║
184  ║─ Conventional ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
185  ║ Total         640 KB, Used 255 KB (40%), Free 385 KB (60%)             ║
186  ║ Used by DOS   28 KB (4%)                                               ║
187  ║─ XMS ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
188  ║ Present       Yes, Version 3.0                                         ║
189  ║ Manager       HIMEM, Revision 3.10                                     ║
190  ║ Total         15296 KB, Used 1105 KB (7%), Free 14191 KB (93%)         ║
191  ║─ EMS ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
192  ║ Present       No                                                       ║
193  ║ Manager       n/a                                                      ║
194  ║ Total         n/a                                                      ║
195  ║ Page Frame    n/a                                                      ║
196  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
197
198  ██████████████████████████████Drives Details██████████████████████████████
199  ║─ IDE Drives ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
200  ║ Primary    Master  IDE Hard Disk                                       ║
201  ║ Primary    Slave   None                                                ║
202  ║ Secondary  Master  None                                                ║
203  ║ Secondary  Slave   None                                                ║
204  ║ Tertiary   Master  None                                                ║
205  ║ Tertiary   Slave   None                                                ║
206  ║ Quaternary Master  None                                                ║
207  ║ Quaternary Slave   None                                                ║
208  ║─ Non-IDE Drives ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
209  ║ None Found                                                             ║
210  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
211
212  ██████████████████████████████Drives Details██████████████████████████████
213  ║─ IDE Drive Physical Information ───────────────────────────────────────║
214  ║ Fixed Disk Controller  IDE (ATA)                                       ║
215  ║ Fixed Disk Capacity    1003 GB (1,076,963,054,592 B)                   ║
216  ║ Fixed Disk Geometry    Cylinders 992, Heads 11, Sectors/Track 63       ║
217  ║                        Bytes/Sector n/a, Bytes/Track n/a               ║
218  ║ Data Buffer Size       256 KB                                          ║
219  ║ Sectors per Interrupt  32                                              ║
220  ║ Controller Type        Dual Ported, Multiple Sector Buffer, Read Cache ║
221  ║ Disk Model             M2682TA                                         ║
222  ║ Firmware Revision      WP-03-99                                        ║
223  ║ Serial Number          00101510                                        ║
224  ║ Disk Type              Fixed, Magnetical                               ║
225  ║ Disk Transfer Modes    PIO 3, SW DMA -/-, MW DMA -/-, Ultra DMA -/-    ║
226  ║ Disk Features          IORDY                                           ║
227  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
228
229  ██████████████████████████████Drives Details██████████████████████████████
230  ║ L  Drive Type                Label        Total    Free     Used       ║
231  ║────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
232  ║ A: Floppy Drive 1.44 MB 3½"  n/a              n/a      n/a      n/a    ║
233  ║ C: Local Hard Disk           MS-DOS_6      335 MB   133 MB   202 MB    ║
234  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
235
236  █████████████████████████Operating System Details█████████████████████████
237  ║ Operating System    MS-DOS                                             ║
238  ║ DOS Version         6.0                                                ║
239  ║ True DOS Version    6.0                                                ║
240  ║ DOS Revision        0                                                  ║
241  ║ User Serial Number  000000h                                            ║
242  ║ DOS OEM             Microsoft or Phoenix                               ║
243  ║ DOS is in           HMA                                                ║
244  ║ Boot Drive          C:                                                 ║
245  ║ Last Drive          E:                                                 ║
246  ║ BREAK               Off                                                ║
247  ║ VERIFY              Off                                                ║
248  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
249
250  ██████████████████████████████Ports Details███████████████████████████████
251  ║─ Serial ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
252  ║ COM Port  UART    TimeOut Rate       Data Stop  Parity CD  RI  DSR CTS ║
253  ║  1  03F8h 16550A  1 s     2400 bps   8 b  1 b   None   No  No  No  No  ║
254  ║  2  02F8h 16550A  1 s     2400 bps   8 b  1 b   None   No  No  No  No  ║
255  ║─ Parallel ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
256  ║ LPT Port  EPP  TimeOut TIM IOE SEL OOP ACK NBZ                         ║
257  ║ None                                                                   ║
258  ║─ Game ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
259  ║ JOY Position X Position Y Button 1 Button 2                            ║
260  ║  1  0          0          Released Released                            ║
261  ║  2  0          0          Released Released                            ║
262  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
263
264  █████████████████████████████Network Details██████████████████████████████
265  ║─ Detected Network(s) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────║
266  ║ No Networks Detected                                                   ║
267  ║─ Network Services/Protocols ───────────────────────────────────────────║
268  ║ FTP Packet Driver, INT 60h, IEEE 802.3 with 802.2 headers, Novell NE20►║
269  ║─ Network Card(s) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
270  ║ NE2000 or compatible Ethernet Adapter at port 300h                     ║
271  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
272
273  ████████████████████████████Multimedia Details████████████████████████████
274  ║─ Sound Card ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
275  ║ BLASTER Type   Sound Blaster Pro or compatible                Bits 8   ║
276  ║ Specific Type  Sound Blaster AWE32                            Bits 16p ║
277  ║ Settings       Port 220h, IRQ 5, DMA 1, High DMA n/a, MIDI Port 330h   ║
278  ║ DSP Version    3.01                                              T 4   ║
279  ║ AWE Features   EMU8000 Port n/a                                        ║
280  ║ Compatibility  Adlib, SB 2.0, SB Pro, SB 16, SB AWE32, General MIDI    ║
281  ║ Features       Stereo, FM + WaveTable Synthesis, 16-bit DAC/ADC,       ║
282  ║                4-44kHz                                                 ║
283  ║ Manufacturer   Creative Labs, Inc.                                     ║
284  ║ DSP Copyright  n/a                                                     ║
285  ║ Accelerator    No Known Found                                          ║
286  ║─ CD-ROM ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
287  ║ MSCDEX Status  Not Installed, Version n/a                              ║
288  ║ CD-ROMs        0, Letter(s) n/a                                        ║
289  ║ Manufacturer   n/a                                                     ║
290  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
291
292  █████████████████████████████Software Details█████████████████████████████
293  ║─ Detected Software ────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
294  ║ Microsoft EMM386 or compatible, Mode ON                                ║
295  ║ Virtual Control Program Interface version 1.00                         ║
296  ║ Mouse Driver                                                           ║
297  ║ XMS Memory Manager                                                     ║
298  ║ Expanded Memory Manager                                                ║
299  ║ Disabled EMS Manager                                                   ║
300  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
301
302  ██████████████████████████████Other Details███████████████████████████████
303  ║─ Miscellaneous ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────║
304  ║ Modem Status             Not Found                                     ║
305  ║ Modem Type               n/a                                           ║
306  ║ Scanner                  Not Found                                     ║
307  ║─ PCMCIA Information ───────────────────────────────────────────────────║
308  ║ PCMCIA Not Present                                                     ║
309  ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Reply 1 of 6, by dr.zeissler

Posted on 2018-02-25, 14:14

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That's the PNP-Bios in combination with the LAN and the Soundcard... it's really hard to get it working stable. You have to use Intel ICU PNP manager and force the settings, otherwise the machine will behave like you have described.

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Reply 2 of 6, by dr.zeissler

Posted on 2018-02-25, 19:19

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But I had to admit, that this worked for me until now 🙁
Now that shitty fucking shit thing does not find the audiodrive anymore. esscfg says disabled in bios or icu.
I have not disabled anything, I only made a cold reboot and now, no sound at all. None in Dos, Win95, NT351 and OS2 Warp.
What is that? It's arghh! This tiny little thing is shit. It's not reliable, perhaps because of VIA and PNP...don't know.

No fun with that thing. Better searching for another machine.

Retro-Gamer 😀 ...on different machines

Reply 3 of 6, by derSammler

Posted on 2018-02-25, 19:24

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I hope you know that ESSCFG can not (and should not) be used when a PNP BIOS is present or after Win9x or any other PNP capable OS has been booted. When you have PNP in any form, don't use ESSCFG.

Reply 4 of 6, by dr.zeissler

Posted on 2018-02-25, 19:32

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I spent hours with this thing... it worked nice until now.

No I never heard about that. ESSCFG reads the PNP-vaules and configures the card right, but now the PNP bios has deactivated the card and so no input for esscfg.

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Reply 5 of 6, by derSammler

Posted on 2018-02-25, 19:36

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dr.zeissler wrote:
ESSCFG reads the PNP-vaules and configures the card right, but now the PNP bios has deactivated the card and so no input for esscfg.

ESSCFG should fail if the card has been set up by PNP already. Otherwise, something is very wrong.

Reply 6 of 6, by dr.zeissler

Posted on 2018-02-25, 19:44

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are you sure about that? ESSCFG with values leads to an info, that the values will be ignored and the PNP config will be used.

After I finally managed to get it to work in dos (ICU found the Audiodrive). It was installed with A220 I5 D1;0 330.
I manually installed the card in win95 and it was configured with A220 I5 D1;3 330.
The reboot in Dos configured the card in esscfg also for A220 I5 D1;3 330. Everything was OK. It worked for many
reboots in Dos and Windows. But after a shutdown and a cold reboot everything was gone, no audiodrive at all,
none in Dos and none in Win95. Totally frustrating. I changed the ICU many times, no Audiodrive anymore.
Totally 30+ hours for nothing.

Retro-Gamer 😀 ...on different machines

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