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First post, by Omarkoman

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I am building the ultimate late Win 98 era P3 system with a Tualatin CPU and using this motherboard

Asus TUSL2-C

https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/asus-tusl2-c

Everything is working great, system is very stable but I have an issue with sound cards.

I tried three different cards

Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS SB0350
Soundblaster Augidy 2 SB0240
Soundlbatsre live 24bit SB0410

and none get detected as new hardware when windows boots, I installed various drivers found here but the cards just dont get detected at all in any of the slots.

Then a cheapie Creative Soundblaster Vibra 128 PCI (CT4810) works just fine.

Could it be possible that all three cards are dead ? I bought them from different sellets over past year or two and havent used them until now as they were for this build and I couldnt make up my mind.

Is there anything about this board and these cards I need to do in bios ? its already set to PnP OS.

thanks in advance

Reply 1 of 6, by NeoG_

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Rule out dirty contacts by using contact cleaner and IPA on the cards and slots

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Reply 2 of 6, by Omarkoman

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Thanks but cards are in perfect nick.

I’ll need to dig out another board to do more testing, it might be very bad luck and all three cards are dead.

I just wanted to ask here in case I am missing something obvious with this board.

Reply 3 of 6, by pete8475

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I owned one of these boards that flat out refused to detect ANY PCI card I put in it.

I ended up buying another one on ebay and it worked with every NON Tualatin CPU I have and refused to post with any Tualatin processor.

At that point I gave up on having a properly working TUSL2-C.

Asus TUSL2-C - Why do these motherboards hate me?

Reply 4 of 6, by cyclone3d

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Just because the cards look perfect doesn't mean that there isn't oxidation on the contacts.

I just use a rubber eraser to clean the card edge contacts.

I have been testing a lot of PCI video cards lately and some have taken two to three cleanings as well as multiple insertion cycles to be detected.

Also ran into a couple that wouldn't work at all until I used my electric duster to blow the dust out from under the GPUs before they would work.

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Reply 5 of 6, by Omarkoman

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The board detects other pci cards like raid cards, I tried few and the sb128 but not these three cards. Its super strange.

I have ordered few other models eg sb0900 and few original sb live cards so lets see what happens.

Is there anything in bios I need to be aware of for this board?

Reply 6 of 6, by zuldan

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Omarkoman wrote on Today, 05:37:

The board detects other pci cards like raid cards, I tried few and the sb128 but not these three cards. Its super strange.

I have ordered few other models eg sb0900 and few original sb live cards so lets see what happens.

Is there anything in bios I need to be aware of for this board?

Grab WD40 contact cleaner (https://www.bunnings.com.au/wd-40-290g-specia … leaner_p6100409). It’s amazing stuff. I use it on all my retro builds. Spray it in your PCI slots and on the copper contacts on the PCI cards (even if they look clean). You don’t have to wait for it to dry (although drying takes 10 seconds), spray plug card in and turn in the machine.

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