Asus PCI-AS300, User Manual

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Page 4: ...s 4 Audio Adapter Amplifier 5 Audio Adapter Base I O Addresses 5 2 Install the Expansion Card 6 3 Connect Cables 6 Audio Cables 6 SCSI Cabling 6 SCSI Cable Limits 6 SCSI Types 7 Connecting Cables 7 4 SCSI ID Numbers Termination 8 SCSI ID Numbers 8 SCSI Termination 8 5 Configuring the SCSI Adapter 9 The SCSISelect Configuration Utility 9 Configure View Host Adapter Settings 10 SCSI Disk Utilities 1...

Page 5: ...vice Drivers 21 DOS and Windows3 1x ASPI Managers 21 DOS Formatting Utilities 22 Low level Formatter scsifmt 22 Formatter and Partitioner afdisk 23 Creative Labs ViBRA 16C Audio 1 User s Notice 2 Manual Information 3 Installation CD 3 Installation CD Contents 3 VI Audio Driver Installation 3 VII Win95 Audio Driver 4 Configuration Manager 5 Creative PnP Configuration Manager CTCM 5 VIII Win3 1x Aud...

Page 6: ...ular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the inter ference by one or more of the following measures Re orient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet o...

Page 7: ... connects to the ISA slot extension How this manual is organized This manual is divided into the following sections I INTRODUCTION This opening page II FEATURES Information and specifications concerning the PCI AS300 III INSTALLATION Instructions on setting up the PCI AS300 IV AUDIO DRIVERS Instructions on setting up the audio drivers Item Checklist Please check that your package is complete If yo...

Page 8: ...68 pin cable connector Firmware configuration utility allows easy reconfiguration Audio Creative Labs ViBRA 16C PnPAudio Chip Full Duplex Supports 16 bit or 8 bit PCM 5KHz to 44 1KHz Wave Table Upgradeable Connections for Sony Panasonic and Mitsumi CD ROM audio Connections for MIDI audio input output microphone input Software Includes DOS and Window 3 1 Drivers Windows 95 Driver Wave Editor Wave O...

Page 9: ...o Input 11 Sony CD Audio Input 12 PCSpeaker Input 13 8 bit Fast SCSI 50 pin connector 14 16 bit Wide SCSI 68 pin connector 15 Amplifier Enable Disable Jumper 16 SCSI Activity LED 17 External LED Layout and Connectors of the PCI AS300 CD Audio Connector Pin Definitions PANASONIC SONY MITSUMI 1 Left Signal 1 Right Signal 1 GND 2 GND 2 GND 2 Left Signal 3 Right Signal 3 GND 3 GND 4 Left Signal 4 Righ...

Page 10: ...uch as to connect pins 1 2 and to connect pins 2 3 Jumpers with two pins will be shown as for short On and for open Off For manufacturing simplicity the jumpers may be sharing pins from other groups Use the diagrams in this manual instead of following the pin layout on the board Settings with two jumper numbers require that both jumpers be moved together To connect the pins simply place a plastic ...

Page 11: ...oard Audio Amplifier Enable Disable 1 JP5 2 3 JP4 Enable Disable III INSTALLATION Jumpers III INSTALLATION Audio Adapter Base I O Addresses I O addresses or I O address range are areas of memory used by your computer s microprocessor to distinguish among various peripheral devices connected to your system when sending or receiving data There are several such devices on your audio card These device...

Page 12: ...les and SCSI bus cables Audio Cables As noted on the card diagram there are connections for three types of CD ROM audio cables If you have a CD ROM installed in your system connect it to the appropriate connector Note that many drives manufactured by vendors other than the three noted have audio cables that are compatible with one of these three connectors Review the documentation that came with t...

Page 13: ... The Wide SCSI connector connects to a cable that has a connector which can only be attached to the card in one orientation making the Pin 1 matchup automatic 2 After you connect the cables to the host adapter review the subject of SCSI identification ID numbers and termination covered in Section 4 Make sure that all devices you connect to the SCSI adapter have different ID numbers and that only t...

Page 14: ... 0 to 7 The 16 bit Wide SCSI bus allows numbers from 0 to 15 SCSI devices vary in how they set the ID number Some use jumpers others have some kind of selector switch Refer to the documentation for any devices you install for details on how to set the SCSI ID number SCSI Termination Both ends of the SCSI bus must be terminated in order for the bus to operate prop erly Since this card only supports...

Page 15: ... SCSI adapter and its interaction with devices connected to it After you have installed and connected devices to the card reassemble your system according to the instructions in your system documentation Once your system is assembled turn on your computer You should see a SCSI BIOS banner message listing connected devices and their ID numbers If everything is working properly you can go ahead and ...

Page 16: ...evel format utility In general SCSI hard disks have already been low level formatted when you get them so you generally should not need to use this Verify Media scans the selected drive media for defects notifies you of any found and gives you the option of reassigning bad blocks so that data will not be written to them Doing this before you start using a disk is a good idea Operating System Suppo...

Page 17: ...comply with CD specifications a core must be added to any cable that is connected to the Game Port CE Compliancy III INSTALLATION 15 Pin Game Port CE Compliant Ferrite Core Wind the cable around the core one time as shown and press the sides of the core together until it locks ...

Page 18: ...as the boot drive If there are only SCSI drives installed in your system and will not boot from the primary drive check the following Make sure that all hard disk type entries in the BIOS Setup utility s CMOS setup are set to None or No Drives Installed Make sure the boot drive s SCSI ID is set to 0 Check that the drive has been properly formatted for the operating system you are using and that th...

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Page 21: ...e up and down arrows to make your new selection and press Enter Press ESC to go back to the Options menu Press ESC again and select Yes to exit the program SCSI Disk Utilities The SCSI Disk Utilities option displays information on SCSI IDs 0 though 15 list ing all devices on the bus including non disk devices When you select a device from the list and press Enter key another window appears giving ...

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Page 23: ...5 andWindowsNTfrom a CDROM disc To gain access to your CDROM drive follow the DOS Quick Start instructions Then reboot your computer and follow these instructions 1 Install Windows95 or WindowsNT version 3 51 or above and start it running on your computer 2 Insert the installation CD into your CD ROM drive 3 Double click My Computer and your CD drive icon 4 Double click SCSI EZSCSI folder and Setu...

Page 24: ...iver used by Win dows95 and WindowsNT to control host adapters and other kinds of devices Win dows95 and WindowsNT include a set of miniport drivers for various types of SCSI host adapters The host adapter miniport driver is automatically installed and con figured during Windows95 and WindowsNT installation if your host adapter is al ready installed To make sure the driver is installed correctly i...

Page 25: ...uestion answer If a yellow exclamation point appears in front of your host adapter name the resources that the driver uses probably do not match the resources used by the hardware Double click the host adapter name then click on the Resource tab Deselect the Use automatic settings box and edit the resources Interrupt Request Direct Memory Access etc so they match those used by the host adapter If ...

Page 26: ...Re start the computer in MS DOS mode When the DOS prompt appears follow the Quick Start instructions for DOS My CDROM drive doesn t work properly under Windows95 Some older models of SCSI CDROM drives are not compatible with the embedded Windows95 CDROM driver You can add support for the CDROM drive by doing the following 1 Click the Start button and select Restart the computer in MS DOS mode 2 Wh...

Page 27: ...nes to your config sys and autoexec bat files to load these device drivers if it finds these kinds of devices on your computer To learn more about the Adaptec EZSCSI device drivers including their command line option information see the online Adaptec EZSCSI Online Reference a Win dows Help application DOS and Windows3 1x ASPI Managers ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface managers are software...

Page 28: ...nd line 2 When the first screen appears read it and press Enter to continue Press F1 at any time to view Help Information about your SCSI disk devices appears on the screen 3 Use the arrow keys to move the highlight bar to a disk device you want to format or verify then press Enter 4 When the next screen appears select either Format or Verify to verify that the disk is free of surface defects then...

Page 29: ...host adapter and that they are powered Then follow these steps 1 Change to the directory where afdisk exe is located usually c scsi type afdisk at the DOS prompt and press Enter Information about your SCSI disk devices appears on the screen The number that appears after Target is the device s SCSI ID 2 Use the arrow keys to move the highlight bar to the disk device you want to partition then press...

Page 30: ...numbers you want Partitions up to 2Gigabytes are supported 5 When the number of cylinders is what you want press Esc When the confir mation prompt appears select Yes and press Enter to create the partition To create more partitions on the same disk device repeat steps 3 4 and 5 As you create partitions on the disk they are added to the window at the upper right of the screen as shown here Select S...

Page 31: ...R PCI AS300 SCSI Audio MediaBus Card USER S MANUAL Creative Labs ViBRA 16C Audio ...

Page 32: ... any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying and recording for any purpose without the written permission of Creative Technology Ltd Copyright 1994 Creative Technology Ltd All rights reserved Copyright 1997 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC All rights reserved Printed in Taipei Taiwan by ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC under license from Creative Technology Ltd Manual Rev 1 01 Release Date January 1997 Soun...

Page 33: ...e directories and view the README files NOTE The drivers were originally created for floppy diskettes Please substitute your CD ROM drive letter such as D and the corresponding directory names in place of any references to A or B floppy drives To use the audio under Windows 3 1x you must install a Configuration Manager and audio drivers The following is a list of the main directories used in this ...

Page 34: ...e Audio folder 5 Double click on the Win95 folder as shown here 6 Double click on the Setup icon and the setup program will begin running when the following is displayed 7 Carefully follow the installation wizard displayed and click the Next buttons to continue through the installation process 8 When installation is completed you can run the audio utilities through the start menu as shown below Wi...

Page 35: ...ll program will not be able to find the PLUGPLAY DRIVERS DOS ESCD RF database file and give you the following message Configuration Manager not found Please install the Configu ration Manager before installing your Audio Software Press a key to continue Pressing a key will send you back to the DOS prompt Run the Configuration Manager install under DOS prompt by typing D ENTER CD AUDIO ENTER CD CTC...

Page 36: ...If you need more information before deciding on a certain option you can always get help by pressing F1 Press ENTER to continue F1 for help F2 for README or F3 to exit The following lines will be added to your system files C AUTOEXEC BAT file SET CTCM C CTCM C CTCM CTCU S W C WINDOWS C CONFIG SYS file DEVICE C CTCM CTCM EXE Press ENTER to continue F1 for help or F3 to exit A message will appear on...

Page 37: ...is installed you may now install the audio drivers by the following command at the DOS prompt D ENTER CD AUDIO ENTER CD WIN31 ENTER INSTALL ENTER The following Audio Software Installation Screen will appear Follow the instructions and make your choice to learn more about INSTALL F1 view the README F2 quit F3 or install Configuration Manager ENTER ...

Page 38: ...f the paths are correct Press ENTER to continue so that changes can be made to you system files You will be prompted that an addition will be made in your C AUTOEXEC BAT and C CONFIG SYS files The typical PC will have these settings added to the system files C AUTOEXEC BAT SET BLASTER A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 SET SOUND C VIBRA16 SET MIDI SYNTH 1 MAP E C VIBRA16 DIAGNOSE S W C WINDOWS C VIBRA16 MIXERS...

Page 39: ...ser s Manual 9 VIII Win3 1x Audio Driver Certain older audio files may already exist in your Windows directory If so simply press ENTER to Backup the original files as shown here Win3 1x Audio Driver Audio Installation ...

Page 40: ... pressing ENTER and edit your CONFIG SYS file and then reboot on your own Otherwise press F10 to automatically reboot your system After your system is rebooted enter Windows to see that the Audio Software is correctly installed You should here a musical chime as you enter Windows 3 1x and see the following on your screen After this message above your installation for Windows 3 1x is complete From ...

Page 41: ...and see the following line for the setting of the SOUND environment variable SOUND path BLASTER Environment Variable The BLASTER environment variable specifies the base I O address interrupt num ber and DMA channel hardware configuration of the audio hardware You can type SET at the DOS prompt and see the following line for the setting of the BLASTER environment variable BLASTER A220 I5 D1 H5 P330...

Page 42: ...pecifies General MIDI file format E Specifies Extended MIDI file format default B Specifies Basic MIDI file format Maximum Recording Rates for the Audio Hardware The sampling rate used for recording is largely influenced by your computer s main processor To obtain 16 bit digital audio using Windows the following maximum recording rates are suggested SYSTEM RECORDING RATE 386 and above Stereo 44KHz...