And another sound card: Genius Sound Maker 12E
see also: 12-bit sound card

Gmlb256 wrote on 2024-07-19, 01:19:

Tested the new version and noticed that the amount of memory size is 0 KB on the AWE64 in the System Summary while it is properly detected in the detailed information.

The AWE64 has a SIMMCONN module with 32 MB SIMM installed (seen as 28 MB due to EMU8K limitations).

Thank you. I will check it.

New sound card: AD1816A

Thanks for your work on ASTRA! Attached is the report from my Zenith Z386SX-20 system. Looks solid except for CPU detected AMD Am386SX for some reason.

Two more sound cards:

CS4236
YMF719E-S

Sound Booster Pro
by AVID Technology

seems to be an OEM variant of the original Sound Blaster Pro, with 2 x OPL2

nothing to do with "Pro AudioSpectrum", not a "Sound Blaster Pro 2.0"

I think it's pretty safe to assume that DSP 3.x + OPL2 = SB Pro 1.

Grzyb wrote on 2024-07-28, 12:07:

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Sound Booster Pro
by AVID Technology

seems to be an OEM variant of the original Sound Blaster Pro, with 2 x OPL2

nothing to do with "Pro AudioSpectrum", not a "Sound Blaster Pro 2.0"

I think it's pretty safe to assume that DSP 3.x + OPL2 = SB Pro 1.

I have this sound card as well plus the original manual. Would be good to get it added to Astra.

zuldan wrote on 2024-08-02, 07:04:

I have this sound card as well plus the original manual. Would be good to get it added to Astra.

All we can expect is it being recognized as Sound Blaster Pro 1, of course.
No way for software to distinguish between Creative and Avid...

Grzyb wrote on 2024-08-02, 11:09:

zuldan wrote on 2024-08-02, 07:04:

I have this sound card as well plus the original manual. Would be good to get it added to Astra.

All we can expect is it being recognized as Sound Blaster Pro 1, of course.
No way for software to distinguish between Creative and Avid...

Maybe it can tell the difference by the existence of the CDROM connector. I think an interrupt can be queried.

zuldan wrote on 2024-08-02, 11:18:

Maybe it can tell the difference by the existence of the CDROM connector. I think an interrupt can be queried.

No, can't assume the following:

DSP 3.x + OPL2 = Avid SB Pro
DSP 3.x + OPL2 + proprietary CD-ROM controller = Creative SB Pro 1

...because the proprietary CD-ROM controller can be on a separate card.

Considering that all the important chips on the Avid-branded card are by Creative - especially the DSP - it's safe bet there's no way to tell it apart from the Creative-branded card.

ASC TROUPER 4x4
probably the first SB16 clone

Another computer: 486DX2/66

Grzyb wrote on 2024-07-28, 12:07:

Sound Booster Pro
by AVID Technology

nothing to do with "Pro AudioSpectrum", not a "Sound Blaster Pro 2.0"

Strange, this card responds as Pro AudioSpectrum on 0x388 port.

ASTRA 7.11 beta has been released.

New in this beta:

- Added detailed information about VLSI VL82C480/VL82C481 chipset (memory controller mode, timings, L2 cache size and type, etc)
- Added detection of temperature of DDR5 memory modules
- Fixed detection of DDR5 memory modules

ASTRA 7.11 beta:
http://www.sysinfolab.com/files/beta/astrabet.zip

VLSI VL82C480 chipset screenshots (Intel Classic R/R Plus (Monsoon)):

a2kkv wrote on 2024-09-26, 20:03:

ASTRA 7.11 beta has been released.

Thank you for the new release. I emailed support@sysinfolab.com a couple of months ago about some bugs. I also included some reports. I haven’t heard anything back. Would it be better to post the bugs here instead?

zuldan wrote on 2024-09-26, 20:19:

Would it be better to post the bugs here instead?

Yes, please to post the bugs here.

a2kkv wrote on 2024-09-26, 19:48:

Grzyb wrote on 2024-07-28, 12:07:

Sound Booster Pro
by AVID Technology

nothing to do with "Pro AudioSpectrum", not a "Sound Blaster Pro 2.0"

Strange, this card responds as Pro AudioSpectrum on 0x388 port.

Well, kind of expected, as both PAS and SB Pro 1 have 2 x OPL2...

but... is the 0x388 response different between cards with 1 x OPL2 and cards with 2 x OPL2 ?

I tried out the latest beta and it's pretty spot on with everything. A few things that weren't right:
Sound Blaster Pro 2 being detected as Pro AudioSpectrum under Sound, but as proper Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 under Sound Blaster Compatible. Don't know how fixable that is. (this is visible in the report)
It wanted me to save a report when using a 3Dfx Voodoo Rush but it hangs the system when generating said report with flashing Please Wait dialogue. Requires a hard reset. It detected only the 2D chipset (AT25 detected as AT3D) and the Voodoo chipset was not listed.
Almost all of my S3 Virge GX2 cards report the wrong core and memory clock speeds. (these are the only cards I have that it was able to even display said info) The speeds are doubled in the output except for one, a Diamond branded one with VBIOS 1.04, which was correct. (even a Diamond card with VBIOS 1.02 was wrong)

Anyway, it marked my CPU as interesting (Intel Pentium MMX 233 MHz) so I made a report.

This is a really useful tool so I'm going to be using it from now on.

a2kkv wrote on 2024-09-26, 21:42:

zuldan wrote on 2024-09-26, 20:19:

Would it be better to post the bugs here instead?

Yes, please to post the bugs here.

Ok thanks.

I'm trying to get this to run on one of my machines but it sits at "Reading MSR Registers" and does nothing. If I use the /nMSR parameter then I can run the software.

I've tried the latest beta (from Vogons) and the v7.1 from the website. The machine has the following hardware.

CPU: AMD K6-2+ 550 / Memory: 64MB SDRAM
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-5AA rev 3.2 (Super Socket 7) - ALi M1542/43/C (ALADDiN V/V+ AT) / AMD K6 Write Allocate Enabled
Video: S3 ViRGE/GX2 4MB (Diamond Stealth 3D 4000)
Video: 2x 3dfx Voodoo 2 12MB (Diamond Monster 3D II) in SLI rev A & B
Audio: Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold (CT4390) (A220/I5/D1) with 28MB memory upgrade
Harddisk: CF Card (DOS) - 20GB PATA (Windows)
CD-ROM: Creative Infra 5400

I've attached a couple of report files. I also noticed on the main system info screen the 2D card info is mixed in with the Voodoo card and it's not showing the total memory for the 2nd Voodoo card. The tool also asked me to report the CPU.

I'm also wondering if it's possible for the software to show the 28MB of memory on the AWE64 Gold card?

Agent of the BSoD wrote on 2024-09-27, 02:21:

It detected only the 2D chipset (AT25 detected as AT3D) and the Voodoo chipset was not listed.

Thank you for the report. Try to run the latest beta version.

Download link:
http://www.sysinfolab.com/files/beta/astrabet.zip

Agent of the BSoD wrote on 2024-09-27, 02:21:

Almost all of my S3 Virge GX2 cards report the wrong core and memory clock speeds. (these are the only cards I have that it was able to even display said info) The speeds are doubled in the output except for one

Fixed