Msi Z77a-g43 Manual

[Breanna Mangels]

Ihad a hard time finding a guide to mod in NVME support for an older UEFI motherboard that covered everything I needed to know, so I pieced together a few other guides to upgrade my Z77 MPower. It worked, so I retraced my steps and wrote it up hoping it might help somebody else.

I have followed all your directions and my NVME will not show up anywhere in bios. I did an MD5sum on my modified bios and it matches yours. Could you please post a pictures of what the drive looks like in your bios? thanks

Thank you so much for this write up! I got it to work with my 960 pro. I was sure I was installing a UEFI Windows OS and I was not. I converted the drive to GUID and it was a cake walk after that. Thanks again for your help.

Good day! I already tried to modify the BIOS on my MSI Z77-G43, but the system did not boot. I, like Fernando, used UefiTool 0.25.1. By your example, you did the same work, but used UefiTool 0.21.5 and my hash sum of the files of the modified BIOS did not match. I will try to flash the BIOS file created by the program of an earlier version. Your opinion?

Good day! Modified the BIOS MSI Z77-G43 using the program UEFITool v.0.21.5, flashed the program FPT.EXE and the computer started. So the whole problem in the version of UEFITool. BIOS MSI is modified v.0.21.5, and BIOS ASUS, information from the forum Fernando, v.0.25.1. Now I will reinstall the PCI-e operating system on SSD. Many thanks to the specialist KEWIHA for their assistance. Good luck to you!

Check the manual for how the slots are allocated for a Sandy Bridge CPU. For me, I have a 3570k (PCIE 3.0, same lane count) with a GPU in the stop x16 slot (runs in x8), a PCIE SSD in the bottom x16 slot (runs at x4), nothing in the 2nd x16 slot, and a wifi card in the top PCIE x1 slot. Try moving the SSD to the bottom x16 slot and see if you can get the Xonar running in any of the x1 slots, or an x16 slot.

Hi @kewiha

Bottom 16x slot does not work at all.

My GPU is in top 16x. 1050ti strix

My NVMe adapter with disk is in middle 16x slot.

And my Xonar STX is in bottom 1x slot. I tried in all others and does not work.

Windows see it, but there is no sound.

But now I noticed something strange :D.

I booted to old SSD disk with dual boot (Windows and Ubuntu). Tried from both and card works. So probably my issue is regarding some OS problem. I will try to reinstall it now.

I'm trying to get digital CD audio working in Windows 98SE. The option in the multimedia settings is always greyed out., and it's always using the analogue output. I have a Sony DDU220E with a Sound Blaster Live! CT4760. The SPDIF cable fits both ways, and I don't know which way around it is supposed to go in; the DVD drive manual says pin 1 is Digital Out and pin 2 is Ground, but doesn't say which is which, and the sound card manual gives no information at all about which way around it goes. The reason I'm doing this is that I'm getting hissing from the CD audio, even if nothing is playing, and I don't know what else to do. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks.

This may vary depending on the device manufacturer, but my Lite-On DVD drive has the "D" and "G" markings above the digital out pins. In my case, the "G" pin on the DVD drive connects to pin 1 on the CD_SPDIF header of the SBLive. That's how I orient the connector, if there is no key.

From what I remember, the original CD_SPDIF cable which shipped with SBLive/Audigy cards was actually keyed, so you couldn't plug it in backwards. There was a small plastic tab on the top side which helped to orient it correctly.

The cable plugs in just fine both ways, on both the sound card and the DVD drive. I've tried it both ways on both ends, but nothing's made any difference. My sound card has no plastic tab on the CD SPDIF pins. Could I have broken it by plugging it in the wrong way?

The pins are documented in the manual, which also says: 'Outputs 16-bit digital audio data over the ATA interface. (support

Audio Accurate)'. This sounds to me like it does support digital CD audio, at least over the IDE cable.

Well, I just get silence when I play CD audio when the analogue source is muted. Attached are some quotes from the manual about the drive's audio output, and a screenshot of my mixer settings. It looks to me like the drive does support digital output, yet I just cannot get it to work.

As mentioned earlier, on my setup, pin 1 of the SBLive's CD_SPDIF header gets connected to the "G" pin on my DVD drive. The cable cannot fit any other way. And lastly, here's the relevant page from the SBLive manual:

For me, this just works. Meaning, when the cable is connected and the CD Digital volume slider is unmuted, I get crystal clear digital CD audio on that card. This is with VxD drivers installed, and no other settings changed.

As you can see from my photo in the first post, mine has a white wire and a red wire. No black wire. Do I have the wrong cable? Mine also has no clips, and the sound card has no plastic cover over the SPDIF pins.

1) your cable is defective

2) your DVD drive cannot output digital CD audio despite having the pins (uncommon)

3) you accidentally caused a short somewhere while plugging your cable the wrong way

For what it's worth, I have used simple jumper wires in the past to connect SBLive and Audigy cards to a DVD drive. Digital CD audio always worked for me, as long as the proper orientation was ensured (pin 1 to G). Maybe try another DVD drive, or get a different cable?

My money's on number 3, though I'm hoping it's something else. According to the DVD drive manual, pin 2 is ground, which is black, right? Can red be ground, too? I thought white was left and red was right?

So it doesn't seem plugging it the wrong way can cause any damage. If you have a multimeter you could try to check the cable for continuity to rule out any fault on it, otherwise I guess you need to test your sound card/dvd drive/SPDIF cable separately on some other PC.

The tools can usually be mixed and matched between CDs. I've recently worked a bit on a custom DanielK support pack for my X-Fi and it was relatively ease to add or update some tools as long as they've used the same "setup framework" (Creative changed this during the cards livetime). You can even download updates for the tools and unpack them and some will work without problems (no all unfortunately). I assume you can cook a similar CD for the Audigy, with all the versions you found working best on Windows 98.

I can't seem to get the Setup rolling on Windows 98 with my SB0240. I've burned driver CD for the "Audigy" and the "Audigy 2ZS". Having the Audigy2 SB0240 I figured one of these would work but alas. My goal is to get SB16 Emulation in device manager as the Live! card I have is a Dell OEM and does not support it.

I've tried switching the soundcard to the first PCI slot and reinstalling a bunch of times. First VDX only, then WDM -> VDX. Weirdly enough everytime I uninstall in an attempt to reinstall I get the message during startup that files are missing when installing the new PCI device/Creative Audigy Audio Processor (WDM). I have to manually path these files:

After doing so I still have some parts of the Audigy undetected in Device Manager. But no matter if I install or skip installation of the drivers I always get this message from both Audigy Driver CD's:

This is strange since the Audigy has been present in device manager without the question mark. I can find only little troubleshooting about this issue online and I really want to install it this way since all the proper guides have this instruction.

Could it be as simple as getting specifically "Audigy 2 (non-ZS)" driver CD instead of the two I've tried? Those have both been documented to work for Win 98 SE for the SB0240 I have. I can get the sound in Windows to work just fine, but it will never detect SB 16 Emulation as the ctzapxx.exe installer on the \Audio\Drivers folder of both CD's will install either WDM/VXD drivers but never seem to pick up the SB16.inf file that I suppose takes care of the SB16 Emulation in device manager.

I did both. Firstly I tried a random Audigy image on archive.org someone referred to on Vogons (Audigy 1), then I burned the one from the Guide which was had the UI for Audigy 2ZS and finally I tried the one for Audigy 2 (non-ZS) but they all tell me there is no Sound Blaster device found. How can this be? I switched to the primary PCI slot and there is no on-board sound to disable. Device manager and Everest seem to recognize the card just fine and it works like a charm in Windows. But without the SB16 Emulation.

a) your system got broken by all the different driver installation attempts, in which case a clean install might help

b) there aren't enough free resources (IRQs DMA) on your system to install the SB16 emulation device

c) you might have an OEM card which doesn't work with Creative's drivers

I would suggest doing a clean install of Win98SE and following the guide as closely as possible. Be sure to check if you have enough free resources beforehand, as described in section 1. of the guide.

This is an overview of the sb16.inf, my current sysinfo regarding the devices installed related to the soundcard, the SB16 related files in my System folder and a tiny bit of my device manager where the SB16 is absent. I also noticed that ctsb16.vxd which is the actual driver for this device is absent in my registry other than recently viewed files.

My assesment: I feel this needs to be able to be resolved without a reinstall and throwing away 20 hours of work. I can't get the disc setup through somehow due to unknown error. A manual install is possible from X:\Audio\Drivers\ctzapxx.exe (the one where you select WDM/VXD/NT driver (un)installation) but this one perhaps looks at the wrong folder from 98se_me, nt40 or win2k_xp or somehow brushes over the sb16.inf in the 98se_me subfolder. Not sure why but I like to know how I can manually add that device and install that driver.

At least I learned a lot about the structure of how Windows 98 functions. It's been 20 years since I actively used it and started a career in IT growing up so I reckon I ought to know enough to recognize your steps and troubleshooting from A to B. Thanks for the update and the work you've put into this guide.

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