First post, by badmojo
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Hi!
So I installed one of my favourite sound cards into one of my favourite retro PCs and of course there's a problem - damn old rigs. Motherboard: GA-586T2 (Intel based socket 7), sound card: Crystal CS4232-KQ based 'Magic S23' (ISA).
The card installs and works fine, in both pure DOS and Windows 98, but most of the time (not all of the time!) the PC will hang when hitting CTL ALT DEL to do a soft reset - same thing happens if I use the 'restart' option in Win98. The PC will reboot but instead of starting to POST, the screen goes blank and the monitor goes in to 'no signal' mode. Things I've tried:
- messing around with every dang BIOS setting I can think of, particularly the 'PCI configuration' stuff where you get to assign IRQs and DMAs to legacy ISA, etc.
- moving the sound card into different slots
- changing the VGA card
- unplugging the CF device
- toggling the IDE interface on the sound card on / off (that's the only jumper on the card)
Has anyone had this problem before? I suspect I've just come across one of those inexplicable incompatibilities that we love so much about retro hardware but this sort of thing keeps me awake at night so I thought I'd ask anyway.
Thanks for any help.
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