*point of thread is at bottom
Well, since I got my Samxon's, I recapped my main PSU and all is well there. Now, I'm working on this project system I'm completely recapping to use as an audio unit. The old SB16 actually sounds very good, but the upper range is a bit harsh, similar to how my SbLive! was before putting film caps in the signal path.
I also had to move it to the inside ISA slot as opposed to the outside because the outside was getting all this wierd *WEEEOOOOEEEEOOO* like someone tuning an ancient radio in an old war movie. I could also hear the mouse movement at times. I don't get any of this on the inside slot. There is however a significant amount of hiss or whatever you want to call it. We'll see how things go as I begin recapping the hardware. This SB16 was manufactured in what... '94? lol! It's been sitting, doing nothing for most of that time means I bought a Soundblaster 32 when they came out and stopped using this card.
Anyway, this board is acting funny. Besides the fact that the P3-500 I have always run in it does not work, (I took it apart and blocked the heatsink, maybe I jacked up the CPU while handling it.) now the 733 I put in it from a different system does not get recognized correctly. In fact although the BIOS will retain ALL other settings through a hard-boot, the CPU config resets. In fact if I go into the BIOS and go under the CPU config it will automatically reset to some janky 233 or some-odd setting. The system tries to post as a 366E or something, too lazy to go look again, and setting the multipliers never results in what it should be. For instance 133 x 5.5 will always come up 650E or somewhere thereabouts.
It also won't recognize my double-sided stick of 512. It thinks it's a 256. I thought the manual said it could use this, but maybe not. Anyway, at the most, with the latest possible bios update, this board can only recognize 768MB, anyway and I have two of these nice 512 sticks, which IIRC are ECC. This board can use ECC, but it doesn't like these obviously. I already ordered the caps for this board, but I may just recap it and if an updated BIOS flash fixes the CPU designation woes(which I read is commonly fixed by a flash), I'll just sell the board and CPU and get something that suits me better.
*I want to find the fastest possible motherboard/CPU combo, which will support two sticks of double sided 512 ECC PC133, and has ISA. I don't care about fast HDD's, don't want SCSI. I already have a video and networking card and of course the SB16. Any suggestions?
Well, since I got my Samxon's, I recapped my main PSU and all is well there. Now, I'm working on this project system I'm completely recapping to use as an audio unit. The old SB16 actually sounds very good, but the upper range is a bit harsh, similar to how my SbLive! was before putting film caps in the signal path.
I also had to move it to the inside ISA slot as opposed to the outside because the outside was getting all this wierd *WEEEOOOOEEEEOOO* like someone tuning an ancient radio in an old war movie. I could also hear the mouse movement at times. I don't get any of this on the inside slot. There is however a significant amount of hiss or whatever you want to call it. We'll see how things go as I begin recapping the hardware. This SB16 was manufactured in what... '94? lol! It's been sitting, doing nothing for most of that time means I bought a Soundblaster 32 when they came out and stopped using this card.
Anyway, this board is acting funny. Besides the fact that the P3-500 I have always run in it does not work, (I took it apart and blocked the heatsink, maybe I jacked up the CPU while handling it.) now the 733 I put in it from a different system does not get recognized correctly. In fact although the BIOS will retain ALL other settings through a hard-boot, the CPU config resets. In fact if I go into the BIOS and go under the CPU config it will automatically reset to some janky 233 or some-odd setting. The system tries to post as a 366E or something, too lazy to go look again, and setting the multipliers never results in what it should be. For instance 133 x 5.5 will always come up 650E or somewhere thereabouts.
It also won't recognize my double-sided stick of 512. It thinks it's a 256. I thought the manual said it could use this, but maybe not. Anyway, at the most, with the latest possible bios update, this board can only recognize 768MB, anyway and I have two of these nice 512 sticks, which IIRC are ECC. This board can use ECC, but it doesn't like these obviously. I already ordered the caps for this board, but I may just recap it and if an updated BIOS flash fixes the CPU designation woes(which I read is commonly fixed by a flash), I'll just sell the board and CPU and get something that suits me better.
*I want to find the fastest possible motherboard/CPU combo, which will support two sticks of double sided 512 ECC PC133, and has ISA. I don't care about fast HDD's, don't want SCSI. I already have a video and networking card and of course the SB16. Any suggestions?
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