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User Manual

SF256-PCP

4-channels PCI Audio Board

Summary of Contents for SF256-PCP

Page 1: ...User Manual SF256 PCP 4 channels PCI Audio Board...

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Page 3: ...J1 J6 Front Speaker Rear Speaker Game MIDI Port Legend Description J1 Auxiliary connector optional J2 Video connector J3 Telephone Answering Device connector J4 CD Audio connector 2 54mm pitch J5 CD...

Page 4: ...2 Pin 3 Pin4 Left Ground Ground Right J2 VIDEO Pin 1 Pin 2 Pin 3 Pin4 Left Ground Ground Right J3 TAD Pin 1 Pin 2 Pin 3 Pin4 Mono out Ground Ground Phone in J4 Sony CD Audio Pin 1 Pin 2 Pin 3 Pin4 Rig...

Page 5: ...ot in your system as shown below 6 Remove the metal plate from the slot you have chosen and put the screws aside 7 Align the gold fingers on the board with the vacant expansion slot and gently lower t...

Page 6: ...ound effect Connect one pair to the Front Speaker Jack on the sound board and identify this pair as Front Speakers The other pair should connects to the Rear Speaker Jack and is identified as Rear Spe...

Page 7: ...o several other external devices as shown in the diagram below FM Dipole Antenna Cassette and CD Player Microphone CON6 GAMEPORT MIDI CONNECTOR CON5 ANTENNA CON1 LINE IN CON3 FRONT SPEAKER CON2 MIC IN...

Page 8: ...o a pair of stereo power speakers or any external amplifier for front audio output Rear Speaker Line Out Jack CON4 This Rear Speaker Line Out Jack connects to another pair of stereo power speakers or...

Page 9: ...manual to Resolve any Resource Conflicts Installation Under Windows 95 98 The various version of Windows 95 98 will display different dialog boxes during installation This manual assumes that you are...

Page 10: ...You will see the SF256 PCF PCI Audio Game Device detected as shown below 6 Click Next and Windows will start copying files into your harddrive 7 Click Finish to complete the installation and reboot yo...

Page 11: ...re is described in chapter 5 The various versions of Windows NT 4 0 will display different screens during installation This manual assumes that you are using Windows NT 4 0 with Service Pack 4 install...

Page 12: ...click OK 11 Reboot your system when prompted Install Joystick You may install the joystick using the drivers supplied with the Microsoft s Windows NT CD ROM disk To install the joystick driver manual...

Page 13: ...CD ROM disk and type D DRVLIB MULTIMED JOYSTICK x86 where D is your CD ROM drive 8 Click OK 9 Select Analog Joystick Driver and click OK 10 Select any port address 0x0200 or 0x0201 and click OK 11 Re...

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Page 15: ...function Installing EzAudio Rack Application EzAudio is a simple audio rack application for playback of audio CD MIDI and WAV files You may also use the EzAudio to record WAV files To install the EzAu...

Page 16: ...anning is also available in additional to conventional manual tuning Be sure that you have purchased the model SF256 PCP R with built in FM Radio To install the RadioAKTIV navigator 1 Insert the SF256...

Page 17: ...allows you to play back MIDI files on your computer without using a hardware tone generator Its high fidelity sounds match the sounds from an authentic tone generator are based on and realized by adv...

Page 18: ...AMAHA on the CD The following interface shows the Yamaha Player For detail information on how to use the Yamaha S YXG50 player and S YXG50 Setup use the On line help by the clicking on the S YXG50 Hel...

Page 19: ...q Microsoft Windows Sound System q Support Adlib Music Synthesizer Real DOS Sound Blaster Pro q Multi channel EAX games support q AC97 rev2 1 and PC98 compliance q Plug and Play compliance Wavetable S...

Page 20: ...quality of sounds that are converted to different samples rates and Doppler effects Audio Quality q Low Signal to Noise ratio with superior split Digital Analog implementation q High quality AC 97 cod...

Page 21: ...of input sources for recording and playback with programmable volume controls q Mixer controlled record and playback with 32 steps logarithmic master volume control MIDI Joystick Interface q Roland MP...

Page 22: ...ng on other programs q Radio recording and playback System Requirement q IBM PC or compatible Pentium with CPU 133 MHz or equivalent q 16MB of RAM 32MB if software wavetable 4MB sound library is used...

Page 23: ...d card and the fax modem card such as I O address or IRQ Often other problems are extermely simple poor cable connections etc Check the obvious first not last What are the Configuration Problems Addin...

Page 24: ...em contains another sound card or an external CD ROM drive To verify resource conflict refer to Resolving Hardware conflicts under Windows 95 98 on page 5 within this chapter Understanding SB System R...

Page 25: ...O address Determine System Resources To find out your SB16 legacy resources in Windows 95 98 Do the following 1 Click on the Start button from the taskbar select Settings and then click on Control Pan...

Page 26: ...esent a list of popular audio card or audio device Resolve I O Resource Conflicts Conflicts between your audio card and other peripheral device may occur if your card and another device are using the...

Page 27: ...click on the Resources tab 6 Make sure that the Use Automatic Setting check box is selected and click on the OK button 7 Restart your system to allow Windows 95 98 to reassign resources to your audio...

Page 28: ...hannels To test full duplex yourself try the following steps 1 Launch the Sound Recorder as shown below 2 Launch another session of Sound Recorder 3 Use one of the Sound Recorder to play any WAV file...

Page 29: ...ager You can test your joystick by clicking on Game controller icon in the Control Panel 3 In order to use two joysticks you will need to use a SoundBlaster compatible Y connector such as Radio Shack...

Page 30: ...s not installed properly Please re install the SF256 PCP audio driver again Double check and make sure that the AUTOEXEC BAT file have the following statements C CFG801 C DOS801 Problems With My Sound...

Page 31: ...SF256 PCP PCI sound card driver first before you install Yamaha SoftSynthesizer Refer Chapter 3 to install SF256 PCP PCI Sound card driver in Windows 9x or Chapter 4 in Windows NT4 0 Refer Chapter 5...

Page 32: ...udio is disabled Another way to save one IRQ is to make the BIOS assign IRQ5 or IRQ7 or IRQ9 to SF256 PCP PCI Audio This way ISA legacy audio can also be supportd via SF256 PCP PCI Audio Please refer...

Page 33: ...to use active speakers or external powered speakers 2 The external amplifier speakers volume control knob is at minimum Turn your external powered speakers volume control knob to mid range 3 The exter...

Page 34: ...r when playing DOS games that required a CD ROM drive 1 Be sure that your CD volume is turned up to the maximum in the volume control of the Mixer If you hear no sound from CD audio you need to verify...

Page 35: ...Record control is all the way up the select box is checked and the MIC Boost box is checked Launch window Sound Recorder and try recording through your microphone Playback your recorded wave file and...

Page 36: ...ime e g standard telephone conversation In order for you to do this the person that you are talking with also needs to have a full duplex card Otherwise you will experience intermediate pauses during...

Page 37: ...e System icon 3 In the System Properties dialog box click on the Device Manager tab and select your CD ROM drive 4 Click on the Properties button 5 In the Properties dialog box click on the Settings t...

Page 38: ...t tune or scan radio station 1 Check that your audio card s driver is properly installed Make sure no exclamation mark appears in the Sound Video or Game controller in the Device Manager Refer to the...

Page 39: ...insert the SF256 PCP Installation CD into your CD ROM drive 7 Click on the Install RadioAKTIV Navigator button to begin installation Radio poor reception even Antenna is connected into the Antenna jac...

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