Charles May wrote:

>I am wondering now if the AC97 is something I turned on in the BIOS.  
>There was a BIOS item called legacy sound and I saw that it was off.  
>Just this week I turned it on in the expectation that the SB would be 
>recognized.  Could this be AC97? 
>
Not likely - this is current technology.

>Steve Wendt wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Charles May wrote:
>>
>>>I do not know what the AC97 audio controller is.
>>>      
>>>
>>Sound integrated into your motherboard, most likely.  You can probably
>>disable it in the BIOS, if that is what you want.  Otherwise, the UniAudio
>>drivers probably work on it.
>>    
>>

Hi Charles,
Combining both responses into one - I was expecting you to confirm 
whether you did actually have any COM 1- COM 2 ports - either the 9-pin 
or the larger 25-pin, both male, or whether you only have USB ports for 
serial communication.   AC97 is the onboard sound chip - in this case 
from Intel - they all seem to be incompatible with different flavours 
from e.g. VIA. Ali, Realtek etc.  I don't go through motherboards other 
than very infrequently - can't afford them - so I don't really have any 
experience with current technology.  The motherboards that I have with 
onboard sound - AC97 - ES1371 - ESS1938 can all be disabled in the BIOS 
[2 Award 4.51PG and an AMI Simple BIOS], "disable onboard sound" is an 
option.

Do you have any settings in your BIOS that relate to PCI settings - 
where you can e.g. "reserve" certain ones for legacy hardware?

[Previous message]
I knew there were 3 items in the PCI-list, which is why I spent the time 
to truncate your message to only the relevant items, in my response.  
The RS-232C COM-ports are usually - on an ATX Tower case to the left of 
the Parallel Printer port [Dark Red female usually], or on a slimline 
desktop case, below it.

Well this session is at the 1d 04h xxm stage, so I'll be knocking off 
shortly.

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Regards,
Mike

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