Best ISA sound card for an old 486 25 w/ODpr100

[Silverman]

I have tried many sound cards in this old 486 with win98 and can only get the Game port to work properly. As the owner is strapped for cash and would prefer to buy used what would be a good recommendation to look around for to put in this old compaq. The system has 32 meg ram 1 meg Trident video 2X proprietary Sony CD and a 56K V90 hardware modem. The machine works well and the owner would like to hold onto it for a little while longer.

[Gabriel]

Actually my mp3 Box (98, winamp) is a 486dx2...
I Use Creative Labs AWE32 Gold ISA card.
It is still alive and kicking.

Good luck
Gabriel

[Sowulo]

Or any old Sound Blaster 16 should do the trick.

[amcfreek]

i think the solution is spelled
e-b-a-y

[Silverman]

E.B.A.Y. it is then.

[ReBoot]

I've got an (really old) SB16 you can have for shipping.

[TangleWeb]

Originally posted by Silverman:
<STRONG> .... 2X proprietary Sony CD and ....</STRONG>

This may be part of your problem. The proprietary CD-ROMS were not ATAPI (IDE). They usually ran off of the sound card. This worked well then. Now its a pain as it produces conflicts, etc. It also requires a certain type of sound card to run properly. You would be much better off getting a cheap CD-ROM at a local discount store & running it off the drive controller as slave. Then you could run almost any ISA sound card. ESS chip sound cards work well & are very cheap.

I would take REBOOT up on his offer. Those old Sound Blaster sound cards work great & will be detected by the OS & you probably won't even have to DL the driver.

I would stay away from private sellers on e-bay for USED CD-ROM's. You're likely to be buying someone else flaky drive. By the time you add shipping, you're better off buying locally at a discout store if there's one near you. Staples near me has a 50X for $29. Midwest Computer Brokers is very ethical & has great prices on used equipment, including parts. You can probably buy a used CD-ROM for less than $20 if you're on a very tight budget.
http://www.mcbia.com/items_for_sale/...ts/storage.htm

Good luck!

[ReBoot]

I've also got an Anchor (based on the Opti 82C924 chipset) with the 4 CD-ROM interfaces on it (2 IDE, Panasonic and Sony) that you can have for $10 plus shipping (no drivers disk, sorry). Your choice.
TangleWeb is right, the drivers are built in to Win95a,b,c/Win98/98SE, but NOT ME/Nt/2K.

[Silverman]

Thanks for all the offers and stuff guys but I picked up an old SB16 circa 1994 with IDE at a comp store for 10.00. Even had drivers with it for Win3.1 and DOS. Installed it like any other legacy device and worked perfect the first time. Although I did have to do some Creative Soldering on the CDROM connector to get it to work. Once again, Thankyou.