Here are some of my finding, to get the card running on my CUBX-L motherboard with a 550 MHz VIA C3 at 100 MHz FSB. These should be similar to other 440BX based boards, or actually other boards using the PIIX4E south bridge, possible extending to the other south bridges in the PCI IDE ISA Xcelerator family, since the settings I've changed are actually the south bridge's settings.
My card is using IRQ 7 (parallel port is disabled) and DMA 1.
I've installed the DOS drivers from adlibgolddrivers1.01.rar. I've extracted the contents of DISK_1, DISK_2/GOLD2.CMP and DISK_3/GOLD3.CMP to D:, since it would only install from a root directory. I've run SETUP and chose to install to D:\GOLD. Had to add the directory D:\GOLD\DRIVERS to the PATH or the batch files inside D:\GOLD would fail.
I've reserved the card's IRQ in SETUP (I've reserved it in "Advanced/PCI Configuration/PCI/PNP ISA IRQ Resource Exclusion"). Without this Timers test would always fail. Reserving DMA 1 changed nothing, so I left it not reserved for further testing.
I've increased the 8-bit I/O Recovery Time. In my case, 7 and 8 BUSCLK worked for the C3 550 MHz @ 100 MHz, with 6 BUSCLK Timers tests started to fail. If the CPU is downclocked to 366 @ 66 MHz only 8 BUSCLK works which is the maximum number. Not sure why a higher value was required for 66 MHz. I assumed the ISA clock is derived from the PCI clock, which for both a 66 MHz and a 100 MHz FSB clock is around 33.33 MHz on this board.
It really looks like this the DRIVERS folder was the one intended to be on the path, since the programs like TEST or JUKEGOLD fail to find files if they are run from a different working directory than they are installed into. TEST won't find the playback sample for the Sampling and Playback test, and JUKEGOLD won't play anything on the playlist if run from another directory.
The "Timers" (4) test is the one you want to start with, since if the card does not pass it, other things will fail.
In the "FM Sound" (5) test, "Enable Surround" worked when the CPU was downclocked to 200 MHz (3.0x 66 MHz), at higher frequencies, I've tested 366 MHz (5.5x 66 MHz) and 550 MHz (5.5x 100 MHz), it either didn't work or, after several switches from enabled to disabled and back, it would start to modify the sound, but it sounded wrong. After such flipping, MMA Timer tests would start to fail, so something was definitely wrong.
In the "Sampling and Playback" (8) test, playing back the sample would work, but recording doesn't work. Not sure what mic is needed, I've connected the same headset I'm using on my work PC, mic to the Microphone jack and headphones to the Line out Jack.
If a Timer test fails, just restart your PC, since other things will start to fail one after another.
JUKEGOLD works nice.
VOICEPAD just hangs, a cold reset is required, Ctrl + Alt + Delete doesn't work.
