First post, by Dan386DX
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Hello!
This card was inside a Socket 7 machine, the PC itself was sold to me as non-working and had been in storage for at least 20 years. PC came back to life with with a new PSU.
REVEAL K2Y-PRO16 - with a Yamaha OPL3 chip! Great score!
Windows 98 auto-installs the drivers, it detects it as..."Soundblaster emulation hardware" in device manager.
The trouble is, it has a looping issue, for instance, if I go to the default sounds and play the chime wav file, I don't just get a ding, but a dingdingdingdingdingdingdingding... endlessly, until I shut down the PC.
If I try to play a music file, it will play the first half-second of the track and then loop it endlessly.
I tried it with another system and got the same results.
So is this likely to be hardware related, or a driver thing? I've only tried it in in 98SE, but I can't seem to find a proper driver after some extensive googling. DOS Days has a snippet about a similar card, and says there are known Windows issues, but that one uses a different chip altogether. Of course it could be hardware, the caps look...okay, but I can't vouch for how well this was stored.
90s PC: IBM 6x86 MX 233MHz. TNT2 M64. 256MB RAM, 2GB CompactFlash.
Boring modern PC: i7-12700, RX 7800XT. 32GB/1TB.
Fixer upper project: NEC Powermate 486SX/25. 16MB/400MB.
