amijim wrote:Well, it seems that the mobo ,actually my first pc qdi titanium iiiB cannot list any of the dozen non plug and play isa cards.
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No motherboard can list non-PnP devices, that's the whole idea...
It's not difficult, just different:
- set the card's resources, using jumpers in this case ; Soundblasters are generally assumed to reside at Addr 220, IRQ 5 and DMA 1, so unless you have a good reason to do otherwise, set that.
- on a PnP motherboard set those resources to Legacy/Non-PnP in BIOS
- in DOS use the SET BLASTER variable in autoexec.bat to tell gamed where to find it, in Windows, go to Device Manager, choose Install New Hardware and when it says it can't detect anything, choose Non-PnP Device and select the card manually from the list and enter the correct resources you set earlier.
I second the advice to save this for a slower PC, years back I tried one in my slowest So5 system and was still not able to get good sound.