Hi,
You may need to patch the driver from Yamaha. They stopped caring at
some point, but you can still patch in support for southbridges up to
ICH6 and VT82C686B.
Best regards,
Michał
W dniu 08.03.2021 o 17:15, Jerome Shidel pisze:
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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