Reply 1 of 7, by Zup
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Depends on SB. Most ISA SBs are configured via jumper, so they will be active even if the system does nothing.
I guess only PCI SBs and jumperless ISA SBs would be inactive, but I'm not really sure.
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Reply 2 of 7, by alexanrs
Well, if it is a PnP SoundBlaster, I'd guess not. If it does you might be able to solve it by creating multiple config files for the SB (one with the normal addresses and one with everything disabled/moved), copy the one you want on that specific startup item to the path CTCU reads and initialize the card.
Reply 3 of 7, by Stojke
Reply 4 of 7, by alexanrs
I'd set it to 300h instead of 332h, if possible. It might be more compatible with games.
Reply 5 of 7, by Stojke
Reply 6 of 7, by Zup
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But your SB supports MIDI at 300h, so you could put the SB at 300h and the other card at 330h.
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Reply 7 of 7, by Jepael
Make sure no cards share the same address, so you have to change/disable addresses manually or let PNP handle it, but two things responding to same address is not good.
It won't blow up immediately even though there will be two cards driving the bus during read cycles, but it won't work properly either.
Edit: I don't know what kind of initializations your SB requires in config.sys or autoexec.bat but my cards do not need anything and games and my programs can just use the card without any initializations so the ports are active.