First post, by CoreDuo
I searched for a good long while on the forum for something somewhat relevant to this but I was coming up empty.
I have this motherboard that I acquired off eBay and was considering using an AWE32. I will need to buy a power supply because unfortunately, I don't have any spares. After looking around on Newegg, I became curious about any reasons that newer power supplies wouldn't work on this board. I then noticed a something that was eliminated in the ATX v1.2 spec, the lowly -5V rail. Digging around some more, I found out that this was used for (old?) ISA cards. I'd read generalizations that "modern" sound cards either didn't use this rail at all or derived it from the -12V rail.
My questions here is:
Is there a specific revision of ATX power supply I need to look for so that it does have a -5V rail so that I can use something like an ISA Soundblaster 16, AWE32, or the like?
I also realize the board has PCI slots but I already have ISA sound cards so I'd like to try and use those first.
Thanks! đ