Soundblaster 16 isa 2.1 pci compliant ?

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Skybuck Flying

Hi,

I am looking through my asus p3v4x bios and manual to see if there is
anything that can be done to remove the crackling of the sound etc...

I came across this option:

Delayed Transaction.

It's default on disabled.

I need to find out if my old Soundblaster 16 isa is 2.1 PCI compliant.

It also seems a bit weird to me... how can an ISA card be PCI compliant ? :)

I can imagine some isa to pci bridge ;)

Anyway I found a nice like about 2.1 PCI compliant and delayed transaction.

http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=8&var1=0&var2=127

Maybe because this is disabled it creates a crackling sounds... <- I am just
pure guessing and hoping for the best.

Maybe I should just try it...

First I am going to try and find some more info about SB16 isa.

P.S.: My SBlive never work with P3V4X it probably doesn't even fit right and
is not detected... maybe I just have a damaged P3V4X motherboard :)

Anyway I am not going to try and install that card again :)

I have one more question... the PCI Latency timer is on 32. Can I change
this value to something else so maybe the crackling goes away ?

Bye,
Skybuck.
 
Skybuck said:
Hi,

I am looking through my asus p3v4x bios and manual to see if there is
anything that can be done to remove the crackling of the sound etc...

I came across this option:

Delayed Transaction.

It's default on disabled.
Click to expand...

Then enable it. I once had crackling problems with the sound card (some
SB16 PnP) when the ISA NIC was used at the same time on an old GA-586HX;
after flashing the last BIOS, the option appeared and turning it on
fixed the problem.
I have one more question... the PCI Latency timer is on 32. Can I change
this value to something else so maybe the crackling goes away ?
Click to expand...

Generally 32 is quite OK, though VIA PCI tweaking can be somewhat of a
science by itself...

Stephan
 
Stephan Grossklass said:
Then enable it. I once had crackling problems with the sound card (some
SB16 PnP) when the ISA NIC was used at the same time on an old GA-586HX;
after flashing the last BIOS, the option appeared and turning it on
fixed the problem.


Generally 32 is quite OK, though VIA PCI tweaking can be somewhat of a
science by itself...

Stephan
Click to expand...

If you go in to your sound card properties, I forget where, you can turn
down Hardware Acceleration.

That stopped the crackling for me, and for others, I believe.
 
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