PCI Sound Card experiments on Sandy Bridge (or later?) mainboards

PCI Sound Card experiments on Sandy Bridge (or later?) mainboards - IT WORKS!!!

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First post, by Mau1wurf1977

Posted on 2013-05-30, 13:50

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Hi all!

I can't remember in what thread I read this, but someone mentioned that with Ivy Bridge boards, PCI Sound Cards could work again.

I played around a little bit with a H77 Asus mainboard and an i5 2400 and had encouraging success.

The AudioPCI got detected, but I got a memory related error. I can post the exact message tomorrow.

I then tried a Vortex2 card and the driver loaded fine. I tested Descent and Doom and FM Music AND speech worked fine!

I couldn't get Duke Nukem 3D to run though...

Then I ran 3D Bench and was quite disappointed by the score. Sysinfo also didn't test that amazingly high...

So maybe someone else wants to experiment more, my time is quite limited normally, but getting PCI sound going on modern machines might be of importance.

The CPU clock speed can be lowered through multiplier and this could make a nice SVGA MS-DOS platform.

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Reply 1 of 7, by d1stortion

Posted on 2013-05-30, 13:52

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Why should PCI sound cards not work in a PCI slot in the first place?

Reply 2 of 7, by Mau1wurf1977

Posted on 2013-05-30, 13:56

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d1stortion wrote:
Why should PCI sound cards not work in a PCI slot in the first place?

They simply don't work on never stuff. Something to do with NMI.

E.g. Core 2 Duo or AMD stuff.

This is GREAT news.

EDIT:

This is for MS-DOS of course, not Windows. So getting Sound Blaster under MS-DOS.

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Reply 3 of 7, by Malik

Posted on 2013-05-30, 15:10

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I wanted to test a few PCI cards in my Z68 motherboard, but the 6950 Crossfire cards are blocking every single PCI slot. I'll test on it as I'm in the mood (read: not lazy) of removing a card for this testing purpose. My ALS4000 card is the one I'm waiting to test mainly.

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Reply 4 of 7, by BigBodZod

Posted on 2013-05-30, 17:41

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Is this on Intel Chipset boards or also AMD ?

Or only in respect to trying out an MS-DOS install ?

I'm using my X-Fi PCI card on my AMD 970 chipset board just fine, under Win 7 of course.

No matter where you go, there you are...

Reply 5 of 7, by robertmo

Posted on 2013-05-30, 20:20

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Malik wrote:
Crossfire cards are blocking every single PCI slot.

Why have you bought such a board?

Reply 6 of 7, by Mau1wurf1977

Posted on 2013-05-30, 23:28

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I tried it with an AMD board a while ago, but no luck.

Yes, this is ONLY for MS-DOS. Just want to make this clear, we are talking about having a Sound Blaster under real DOS. No Windows whatsoever.

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Reply 7 of 7, by sprcorreia

Posted on 2013-05-30, 23:42

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Funny. Today i was testing some stuff i have to put together a "Youtube PC" for my niece and i used an IDE drive that had MS-DOS in it. And i was really surprised when the P5GC-MX/1333 with 1GB and a Pentium 4 550 (3.4GHz) run One Must Fall 2097 at perfect speed.

Maybe i'll try to add a nice soundcard to it and see the results. Perhaps a Santa Cruz...

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