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SB AWE 32 problems
Name: DMJ Date: August 3, 2002 at 03:02:22 Pacific
Comment:
I have installed a Sound Blaster AWE 32 pnp (ISA) on a motherboard with a Celeron 366 overclocked at 412MHz (75x5.5). The problem is that when the system boots a message error appears: "Can't load synthgm.sbk" and a continuous noise is heard. If I disable the midi, the message error does not appear and even the noise is not present, but if I play a wave file it is very distorted and I can't also listen to audio cd. Do you think the audio board doesn't like the frequency of the overcloccked bus at 75MHz instead of 66MHz? What you can advice me to do?
Name: Sterling_Aug Date: August 3, 2002 at 03:47:14 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, you are overclocking the PCI bus beyond what the old ISA cards can handle.
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Response Number 2
Name: DMJ Date: August 3, 2002 at 03:57:03 Pacific
Reply:
Can I setup something (for example in the bios) to lower the frequency only on the ISA bus or can I do something else?
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Response Number 3
Name: DMJ Date: August 3, 2002 at 07:01:34 Pacific
Reply:
Do you think a Sound Blaster pci128 could work on this motherboard with bus at 75MHz?
And the AWE32 on ISA slot could work on another motherboard with a Pentium II 450 with bus at 100MHz not overclocked?
Please answer, thanks a lot.
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Response Number 4
Name: Bryan Date: August 3, 2002 at 14:14:31 Pacific
Reply:
Look in the BIOS setup. You may be able to set the ISA bus speed as several different fractions of the PCI bus speed. My mobo allows this. In any case, the AWE32 should work OK at the faster speed. I had no trouble with mine at 75MHz.
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