Hi Everybody, Thanks for all the advice and information.
Just some rough machine history. I originally bought that Pentium Pro new back in late 95 at a computer show. About a decade ago, I migrated that machine from it’s original case to a 2U rack mount case to conserve space. The original case was enormous and was about 3ft tall. If I recall correctly, it had 14 5.25 drive bays. 10 external bays and 4 internal with room for 4 more internal ones. But, I was very busy back then to play around with that machine. So, I didn’t really do anything with it other than boot it a couple times. A year or so later, the CPU fan went bad and I changed it Then about 5 years or so back, the CMOS / Clock battery finally died (20 years, not bad). However, it would forget all BIOS settings after changing them left it booting from floppy or cd/dvd only. Being inside an IC soldered to the mother board, I procrastinated fixing it. Not trusting my de-soldering skills, I had a friend remove the old clock IC. Then, I soldered in a socket and plugged in a new clock. Yippy, all is good again with since 2019. Now finally, I’ve gotten around to messing with it. Installed FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 straight from the LiveCD. Got networking working. Now working on getting sound support. Wish I could use ISA instead of PCI. Being in a 2U rack mount chassis, it has a PCI riser for the expansion cards. I wish I could put an ISA card in there. I have (in my opinion) the best sound card Creative Labs ever released. The Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold with daughter board to max’d RAM. When looking at sound cards on eBay, I found that card sells from $150-$300 without the extra RAM module. No, I’m not selling it. I’m using it in the docking station for my 486DX2-66 notebook. :-) After the great advice you all gave me, I found a NIB (opened to verify contents, but card still factory sealed) YMF744 based sound card on eBay for $25. So, I ordered it. I don’t recall if the mother board for the Pentium Pro has a SB-Link. It is a server board. So, probably not. But, it may have DDMA support. I guess I’ll find out when the card arrives and I install it. The sound card should arrive next week and I’ll slap it in there soon after. I’ll post the results. Thanks again, all the information was a huge help. :-) Jerome
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