Is it just me or does the Soundblaster AWE32 (model CT3990) require a lot of resources to be able to properly run?
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Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
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- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
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- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (CT3990) and resource conflicts...
define "a lot" ... with video cards mapping all video memory to address space, that could be said to be a lot more than any sound card... -
Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (CT3990) and resource conflicts...
I/O port ranges and configuration resources. On the 1993 Gateway 2000 80486 system, the card only works reliably in Slot 8, and it only seems to work well with the Adaptec AVA-1515 SCSI controller. Trying my UMC UM9008F-based or my Winbond W89C904AXF-based network card has only intermittent success, usually resulting in the system hanging when AWEUTIL.COM is executed to initialize the CT3990, or AWEUTIL returning 'ERR012: AWE32 initialization failed'.
Other strange things that I've noticed are:
Successful initialization on the first cold boot, but hanging on a warm boot or after a second cold boot.
Initialization failing, but when starting WfW3.11, the system immediately hard-hangs when any audio is played, rather than simply throwing an error stating that the soundcard isn't present.
Not sure if it's just a lack of configuration resources, weird interoperability quirks, or what it could be. I've went into the Intel PnP Configuration Utility, disabled the IDE and gameport controllers, and set the baseport to 0x280. That seems to make it play nice with the SCSI controller, which it didn't do previously, and it won't play nice with either network card, with or without the SCSI controller installed.Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (CT3990) and resource conflicts...
make sure the irq isnt shared with anything.Comment
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Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (CT3990) and resource conflicts...
Same to DMA channels, been a while but thought SB boards used a DMA channel along with IRQ.
but yes there have been boards that have really inflexible IO port/IRQ/DMA/memory address switching that getting them to coexist with other boards have been close to or totally futile. Course it would be nice if all boards could be set to any arbitrary settings but that would increase the cost of the board ... and we know the beancounters win.Comment
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Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (CT3990) and resource conflicts...
i seem to remember the irq can be 5 or 7 and that clashes with the parallel port.Comment
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Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (CT3990) and resource conflicts...
LPT1 uses IRQ7. LPT2 typically uses IRQ5 but most people only have one parallel point and IRQ5 is probably the most common SB16 interrupt line.Comment
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Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (CT3990) and resource conflicts...
There was a "retro computer" trend a couple years ago of putting the sound card on IRQ 7 instead of 5. I don't know if there was some game that was hardcoded to IRQ 7. IRQ 5 works for me.
My Gateway Solo 2500 defaults to IRQ 11 if the CMOS battery dies (along with the more annoying problem of having to run an IDE auto-detect function in the BIOS - it defaults to "not installed" for both IDE drives). It doesn't really matter because the oddball NeoMagic sound chip has no DOS compatibility, even though it's based on a Yamaha OPL3-SAx (it even has the Yamaha control panel in Windows).Comment
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Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (CT3990) and resource conflicts...
if you look at your motherboard manual, you will see that many boards dont have the same interupts available on each slot.
so back in the isa days you sometimes had to swap cards around.Comment
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Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (CT3990) and resource conflicts...
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards...0081-xx-09-001
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Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (CT3990) and resource conflicts...
That's just some basic jumper configuration. I haven't found anything else regarding documentation.Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (CT3990) and resource conflicts...
My first computer (386DX-40, 4 megs RAM, April 1992) did not have a sound card or speakers, or CD-ROM (although it had SIXTEEN 30-pin SIMM sockets which I think was rare. 16 SIMMS * 4 megs = 64 MB max). When I added a sound card and CD-ROM in 1994, as many did that year, I got the Sound Blaster 32 (not the AWE32). My motherboard featured "decoupled refresh" in the BIOS. When the motherboard was refreshing 8 of the SIMM sockets, it could read or write to/from the other 8 (I think that's what it was doing).
When "decoupled refresh" was turned on in the BIOS, the first time you asked the sound card to make any sound, some weird noise came out of the speakers and would not stop. The reboot button or pulling the power cord were the only ways to make it stop.
I don't know if this means it took lots of resources. I do know that I spent $500 for four 4-meg 30-pin SIMMS (16 MB total plus whatever else I already had) but they didn't work and I had to send them back. They were "Packard Bell Fake Parity Chips" that failed on many motherboards, including mine.Comment
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Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (CT3990) and resource conflicts...
I've pulled the CT3990 out of the Gateway 2000 system and will be shelving it until I can get the ball rolling on an upcoming Socket 5 build, which will be a while down the road.Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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