SB-Link Connector on P2B

[Markus Ruwisch]

hello,
i've the following question:
onto my Asus P2B there is an Connector named SB-Link. (Soundblaster Link ?)
Does anybody know what it is for ?

And is it possible to connect it to my Soundblaster AWE 64 Value ?

Thanks from Germany

markus

[Kirk Gossage]

I believe that the connector is used to interface the m/b with new PCI sound
blaster sound cards.
Kirk

[Chris Dale]

The SB-Link allows new PCI soundcards to work in DOS. They will work in
Windows just fine, but require this port to work in DOS games and such.

Markus Ruwisch wrote in message <77leek$upu$1...@news06.btx.dtag.de>...

[Ralph]

The SB-Link is for only one board; a PCI Digital OEM sound card (PCI-64D)
from Creative. It was supposed to give hardware DOS support for the card.
No other sound card ever used or ever will use the SB-Link and it's totally
useless.

[Rick Lindsay]

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 05:00:18 -0500, Ralph wrote:

>The SB-Link is for only one board; a PCI Digital OEM sound card (PCI-64D)
>from Creative. It was supposed to give hardware DOS support for the card.
>No other sound card ever used or ever will use the SB-Link and it's totally
>useless.

Yep, totally useless header and a waste. The Aureal based PCI sounds cards
can do DOS without using the header...

Rick Lindsay, Lindsay Computer Systems, http://www.jump.net/~lcs
Austin, Texas. 512-719-5257. Asus based systems, Asus Products.
Advanced Systems.
This message is SHAREWARE, please register...

[Rob]

Rick, what about the SB Live! sound card; can it do DOS emulation well? (I
know it doesn't use the defunct SB-Link).
TIA
Rob

Rick Lindsay wrote in message ...

[Rick Lindsay]

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 06:59:51 -0500, Rob wrote:

>Rick, what about the SB Live! sound card; can it do DOS emulation well? (I
>know it doesn't use the defunct SB-Link).

I don't know. I would suspect that Creative figured out how to do DOS from
a PCI slot, after all every time Aureal prints an ad, Creative files a law suit.

[Rob]

LOL! Thanks. It's even funnier because it's true!

Rick Lindsay wrote in message ...

[James Huckabey]

My SB PCI 128 sound card works just fine in DOS. It is initialized with it's
own software if you run it in DOS. Windows shows the legacy configuration.

Chris Dale wrote in message <77mp2c$n9h$1...@spitting-spider.aracnet.com>...

> The SB-Link allows new PCI soundcards to work in DOS. They will work
in
>Windows just fine, but require this port to work in DOS games and such.
>
>

[Hans-Georg Michna]

MRuw...@t-online.de (Markus Ruwisch) wrote:

>i've the following question:
>onto my Asus P2B there is an Connector named SB-Link. (Soundblaster Link ?)
>Does anybody know what it is for ?
>
>And is it possible to connect it to my Soundblaster AWE 64 Value ?

Markus,

my current information is this, true or not:

The SB_LINK connector connects to PCI sound cards, like the
Sound Blaster Live. On that sound card, the connector is called
MB_something.

The purpose is to provide ISA Interrupt and DMA support in
MS-DOS mode.

The cable is only provided in the US market, not in Europe. (Are
we supposed to be more advanced?)

DOS programs running in a virtual DOS machine rather than in
purse MS-DOS mode have a different way to play sound. For these
there is a software Sound Blaster emulation.

As I said, I may be wrong. But then it may not matter much
anyway. Most older games run in a VDM, most newer games are
Windows programs anyway. But if anybody can provide me a source
for these tiny cables, I'd order a dozen from the US, because
I'm about to build some business and game machines based on the
P2B series.

Hans-Georg

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[blues...@my-dejanews.com]

Just got the new P2B-L motherboard,chip etc...When I turn whole system on, my
monitor goes into sleep mode and does not wake up. The hard drive spins, then
everything seems like its going to work,then zzzzz. Maybe i did something in
bios? How do I clear everything and start over?? Thanks in advance

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[Dave K.]

I haven't had any problems running the SB Live's DOS emulation. It
starts up by adding lines to your config.sys and autoexec.bat file. It
also uses another IRQ. Currently mine uses IRQs 5 and 10. Works fine
for me though...

BTW, register your shareware :)

Dave

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 06:37:40 -0600 (CST), "Rick Lindsay"
<lcs@"jump".net> stated the following:

>On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 06:59:51 -0500, Rob wrote:
>
>>Rick, what about the SB Live! sound card; can it do DOS emulation well? (I
>>know it doesn't use the defunct SB-Link).
>
>I don't know. I would suspect that Creative figured out how to do DOS from
>a PCI slot, after all every time Aureal prints an ad, Creative files a law suit.
>
>
>Rick Lindsay, Lindsay Computer Systems, http://www.jump.net/~lcs
>Austin, Texas. 512-719-5257. Asus based systems, Asus Products.
> Advanced Systems.
> This message is SHAREWARE, please register...
>
>

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[joe...@my-dejanews.com]

In article <77rhmc$hg7$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,

Remove the Batery for a few minutes.

[JPRuddy]

I had the same problem or symptoms as you mention here but with another
type of motherboard and I found that by removing and replacing my PCI
video card it cleared it up. Not sure why though.

[alex...@usa.net]

I've had the same problem with the P2B-S and a Celeron 300A... I thought
maybe it was my videocard, but I hope not... Tell me if you figure it out...