Jaton SonicWave-SR, User Manual

Page 1: ...Copyright 2001 Jaton Corporation USA NOTICE The information in this document is subject to change as the Company may make changes to product in order to improve User s Guide version 4 00 SR SR...

Page 2: ...copies may be made of the software or any part thereof No other license of any kind is granted to any part of the product or any of the intellectual property therein TRADEMARK ACKNOWLEDGMENTS SonicWa...

Page 3: ...RIPTION 9 SONICWAVE SR2 PCBLAYOUT 9 SONICWAVE SR4 PCBLAYOUT 9 SONICWAVE SR6 PCBLAYOUT 10 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 10 4 1 INSTALLATION STEPS 10 DRIVER INSTALLATION 13 WINDOWS 98 DRIVER INSTALLATION 13 CD...

Page 4: ...TING EZAUDIO 57 EZAUDIO COMPONENT DESCRIPTION 58 PLAY EZAUDIO 59 EZAUDIO RECORDING 59 SELECTING CD MIDI OR WAVE TITLES 60 THE CD PLAYLIST 60 THE MIDI PLAYLIST 61 THE WAVE PLAYLIST 62 PLAY MIXER 63 REC...

Page 5: ...UND CARD 73 HOW TO ADJUST SB IRQ IO DMA FOR SOME DOS GAMES 74 DOES FM801 SUPPORT LINUX OS 75 WHAT ARE THE 2 SPEAKER 4 SPEAKER AND 6 SPEAKER AUDIO OUTPUT OPTIONS USED THAT CAN BE FOUND IN FORT MEDIA CO...

Page 6: ...ousands of DOS games Legacy Audio block supports AdLib Music Synthesizer Sound Blaster Pro MPU401 UART mode and Joystick function in order to provide highest hardware compatibility for numerous PC gam...

Page 7: ...I 2 1 Compliant Soft MPEG II Support Microsoft DirectSound and MMSystem Compliance 128 voice Software Wave Table Synthesizer support Available Superior 3D positional Audio Support Creative Environment...

Page 8: ...viding instructions on how to recover re fresh and re install SonicWave PCI sound card drivers in a quick and convenient way Readers can also use the Setup program provided to install or upgrade sound...

Page 9: ...Y 1 MIC LINE IN SPEAKER AUX 1 TAD 1 PC SPK JP1 GAME 1 1 PCI Local Bus PnP 2 channel sound output SonicWave SR4 PCBLAYOUT VIDEO AUX TAD Plate VIDEO 1 R G L G PANASONIC 1 L G G R SONY 1 MIC LINE IN FRON...

Page 10: ...FRONT SPEAKER REAR SPEAKER CENTER SUB AUX 1 TAD 1 PC SPK JP1 GAME 1 1 PCI Local Bus PnP SPDIF OUT 6 channel sound output SPDIF OUT 2 Channel sound output only HARDWARE INSTALLATION 4 1 Installation S...

Page 11: ...urself and discharge any static electricity Remove the cover from your PC Remove the computer s cover retain the screws if any Remove the silver bracket on the back of the PC Find an empty PCI slot in...

Page 12: ...bag you must discharge any static electricity on your body by touching a grounded metal surface When handling this sound card hold it by its edges and avoid touching its circuitry Align the card to a...

Page 13: ...nd all steps on driver installation are only describe mentioned above operating systems Note If you have not installed the PCI Sound Card please go back Section of Hardware Installation for PCI sound...

Page 14: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 14 Installation Steps 1 The Wizard will be guides you to begin the installation 2 Click Next to continue...

Page 15: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 15 3 Follow the instruction on the Windows Click Next to continue...

Page 16: ...SR User s Guide Version 4 0 16 4 Check the specify a location box Click the Browser option to search for the location of the driver 5 Open up the folder for the directory that contains the driver and...

Page 17: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 17 6 Press Next when the location is specify 7 Wizard shown the FM801 Audio Game device when the driver has been located properly Press Next again...

Page 18: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 18 8 Windows now starts copying the files Click Finish to finish the Audio Game Device installation...

Page 19: ...iver installation Refresh installation when encountering difficulties in manual installation of the sound card driver Same utility will also be used for driver upgrading to the newest sound card drive...

Page 20: ...4 0 20 running Your selection of operating system will be highlighted once the pointing device is on top of it 2 After that the AUDIO SETUP program will pops up for its confirmation click on Next but...

Page 21: ...se wait until the process is over Latterly driver install proceeding will be finished 4 Congratulations The PCI sound card driver has been successfully installed CD Manual Setup The following steps ar...

Page 22: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 22 2 Double click on your CD ROM drive Make sure the driver s CD is inserted...

Page 23: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 23 3 Double click on the Setup icon to start the driver installation process...

Page 24: ...refer to page 14 16 to complete the following FM801 Audio Installation Verifying the FM801 Driver Installation for Windows 98 1 Open the system properties screen by right click on My Computer and sele...

Page 25: ...Guide Version 4 0 25 3 Double click Sound video and game controllers from the hardware tree to verify the FM801 installation You should see at least these two entries FM801 Multimedia WDM and FM801 P...

Page 26: ...cWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 26 Fort Media Control Panel For Windows 98 This program should be installed automatically upon the hardware installation Activating Fort Media Control Panel on Window...

Page 27: ...r speaker settings as well as to remove the installed driver Note To get Help on Fort Media Control Panel please move your mouse pointer to where you need to get help Double click it to display the de...

Page 28: ...ion On will result high CPU usage The center position of CPU usage slider is an indication of turning SRC on while Elevation mode is set at off From different instruments Playback Mixer allows users t...

Page 29: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 29 Record Mixer controls the mixer mode setting of recording instruments...

Page 30: ...ser s Guide Version 4 0 30 Driver un install and Speaker Test To uninstall the FM801 PCI sound card driver first go to the task bar then clicking on Start button scroll up to Settings and selecting on...

Page 31: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 31 Double click on Fort Media icon in Control Panel...

Page 32: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 32 This brings up the Fort Media Dialog Box Click on Uninstall button to remove the driver...

Page 33: ...music note shown on the screen to verify the correct placement of your speakers Windows Me Driver Installation Since the PCI sound card is a Plug n Play device that will detected by your operating sy...

Page 34: ...abled under your Windows operating system the PCI sound card driver setup menu will appear on your screen To install audio driver that you may easily just click on Install PCI Audio Driver access bar...

Page 35: ...rifying the FM801 Driver Installation for Windows Me Open the system properties screen by click on My Computer and then selecting Properties Tag to Device Manager screen and double click on Sound vide...

Page 36: ...do not recommended to install PCI sound card manually because the digital signature for Windows 2000 XP do not allow driver components to install separately CD Autorun Setup The Autorun setup feature...

Page 37: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 37 To install audio driver just simply click on Install PCI Audio Driver button Click on Next to continue...

Page 38: ...is over That is it after all files have been in placed the driver installation is finished Windows NT4 0 Driver Installation PCI Sound Card Driver install from Autorun 1 After the hardware has instal...

Page 39: ...icWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 39 2 Select Yes if you wish to continue the installation Click No to quit 3 Once the driver is installed please press on OK to re boot the system to finish installat...

Page 40: ...ion 4 0 40 Manually Install PCI Sound Card Driver 1 To install the PCI sound card driver first go to the task bar then clicking on Start button scroll up to Settings and selecting on Control Panel 1 D...

Page 41: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 41 2 Select Device tab...

Page 42: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 42 3 Click Add button to add a new device into multimedia properties...

Page 43: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 43 4 An Add Dialogue box is displayed and select the Unlisted or Update driver item then click the OK button...

Page 44: ...e SR User s Guide Version 4 0 44 5 An Install Driver dialogue box prompt Insert the driver s CD into the CD ROM drive search the directory in which the driver locates using Browse then click on OK to...

Page 45: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 45 6 Select Winnt4 sub directory for NT driver...

Page 46: ...press on OK 8 Restart Now to re boot your system to complete the installation Verifying the FM801 installation for Windows NT4 0 1 To verify the FM801 sound card driver installation first go to the t...

Page 47: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 47 1 Double click on Multimedia icon...

Page 48: ...in Multimedia Properties FM801 should have five components installed as followings Audio for FM801 Wave Mixer and FM Syn MIDI for FM801 MPU 401 MIDI for FM801 Wave Mixer and FM Syn Mixer for FM801 Wa...

Page 49: ...re is a yellow exclamation mark on one of the component or a missing component try Uninstalling and then reinstall the drivers Windows NT Driver Uninstall Use same procedure above path into Device tab...

Page 50: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 50 Remove button as below Windows will confirm your require for the driver removing click Yes if you decided to do so...

Page 51: ...re is DOS sub directory in FM801 Software Package containing tools for DOS support Turn off your PC Insert your PCI sound card Turn on PC and reboot system At DOS Prompt type D DOS INSTALL if it is fr...

Page 52: ...20 is the recommended setting for this selection STEP 2 You may not see this step if your CMOS BIOS have IRQ 5 7 9 12 assigned to your Sound Card Please Select SB IRQ Channel 1 IRQ 5 2 IRQ 7 3 IRQ 9 4...

Page 53: ...ings to take effect Do you want to reboot y n YES is the recommended setting for this selection Troubleshooting 1 Check list if Sound Card not found or IRQ not assigned to FM801 I Change Slot Insert t...

Page 54: ...IO IRQ and DMA II This adjustment can be achieved through the INSTALL program III Make sure that IRQ IO DMA resource is available then choose that IRQ IO DMA which is good for that games by running th...

Page 55: ...y to be heard as separate from the original sound and are heard as a continuation of it Turning on the reverberation adds ambient reverberation effects to the processing Note that this option uses a l...

Page 56: ...he center of the mix Low Frequency Enhancement LFE A 3D bypass for low frequencies only which are passed directly through to the output without being subjected to 3D processing LFE is very useful for...

Page 57: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 57 Activating EzAudio The proper way to activate EzAudio is 1 Double click the EZ Audio icon in the task bar 2 You will then see the whole appearance of EzAudio...

Page 58: ...of your screen CD PLAYER This component plays audio CDs The window display shows the track and time MIDI PLAYER This component play General MIDI files a computer music format The display window shows...

Page 59: ...rward Rewind The CD player also has Next and Previous functions Component buttons are marked with symbols commonly found on consumer audio players So if you have used an audio player before you will f...

Page 60: ...t allows you to arrange CD tracks MIDI songs and WAVE sound files into a program of your choice Playback starts with the first item in the Playlist and continues until all items have been played The C...

Page 61: ...The MIDI Playlist Place the mouse pointer at the floppy drive icon Click on the icon to access MIDI Playlist This allows you to accesses the Name MIDI dialogs box shown below The dialog box allows you...

Page 62: ...ter to the audio tape door and click on it to access the Sound Playlist To play a WAV digital audio file you must first insert the files you wish to hear in the Playlist Once you have created a Playli...

Page 63: ...Control window To adjust the Volume Control or the applicable Wave DS FM Syn CD and Mic Move the corresponding Balance dial left and right Move the corresponding Volume dial up and down If mute is pre...

Page 64: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 64 RECORD MIXER The recording mixer is inside MIXER component To activate first click on MIXER Select Options from the Volume Control Panel...

Page 65: ...SonicWave SR User s Guide Version 4 0 65 From pull down menu to select the Properties...

Page 66: ...ontrol panel highlight the Recording box in the Adjust volume for windows Choose the input source then press OK Check the Select Box for the recording channels If one prefers to record the entire sour...

Page 67: ...one In most cases the source of the problem will soon become clear For example if FM801 PCI sound card works fine when you remove all other cards from your computer but it stops working when you repl...

Page 68: ...e resource conflicts To resolve such conflicts it is important to know the settings of other cards it is best to remove other sound cards and peripherals currently in your system including the mouse f...

Page 69: ...re that you have the game set up in a music option that the FM801 PCI sound card supports If the game takes advantage of DirectX or DirectSound be sure that you have the latest DirectX drivers from Mi...

Page 70: ...sound utilities that you would expect to find Features such as the Audio CODEC the Media Player and the Microsoft Mixer may not be present This may cause your sound card to not function properly even...

Page 71: ...o a line input on the monitoring system To eliminate the possibility of a bad cable try plugging a pair of high impedance headphones to the FM801 PCI sound card Line Out jack and see if you hear any s...

Page 72: ...e that your CD volume is turned up to the maximum in the Mixer If you still aren t getting music you will need to verify that the internal patch cable is connected between your CD ROM drive and the so...

Page 73: ...s not installed properly Please re install the FM801 driver again If this line exists please change it to C CFG801 1 t In Windows 95 or Windows 98 use Regedit under C Windows to find one string called...

Page 74: ...em s of the additional layer of routing change BIOS setting to reserve PCI IRQ 5 7 9 10 for PCI Devices Some old DOS games may not work in a Windows DOS Box If this is the case shut down the system to...

Page 75: ...are designed for the end users to configure how many speakers have been connected to your sound card For example If your sound card is a 4 channel sound card then you can choose to connect 2 speakers...

Page 76: ...udio requiring the use of a ISA IRQ By disabling the ISA legacy audio support in the operating system the dedicated ISA IRQ is freed thus using only one PCI IRQ DOS Applications and games that require...

Page 77: ...tact technical support Name of the product Software Driver and Version System Information such as CPU speed BIOS version Monitor Specification etc Description of the problems including any error messa...

Page 78: ...rfaces Proof of purchase will be requiring before any consideration by Manufacturer occurs Other Limits The forgoing is in lieu of all other warranties expressed or implied Including but not limited t...

Page 79: ...ased on contract tort strict liability or otherwise Under no circumstances whether based on this Limited Warranty or otherwise Manufacturer shall not be liable for incidental special or consequential...

Page 80: ...s Shipping and installation of the replacement Products or replacement parts shall be at User s expanse Services agreement All applicants shall completed service request form from Manufacturer All ret...

Page 81: ...o this product and is governed by the law of the State of California Reducing Warranty Claim Rejections To reduce the potential of incurring damages not covered by Manufacturers warranties we strongly...

Page 82: ...e it is not compatible with another product or because it has not been properly installed and set up the manufacturer does not pay for the service time To help avoid these inconveniences contact a pro...

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