Re: Legacy ISA bus motherboard

Fred,

Availability of an ISA bus slot is just one of several things to consider here.
Let's assume you have a P4 (or Athlon) board with ISA slot.  Now you install the
old but important ISA sound card.  Which operating system will you be running?

For all practical purposes, Windows XPee drops support for ISA slots.  Windows
2,000,000 is a little better.  Windows ME SUCKS big time.  Windows 98 is pretty
good for what it is, a shaky house of cards on top of an even more shaky
1981-vintage DOS.

You would also have to unearth sound card software drivers for whatever
operating system you intend to use.  If you intend to use the new motherboard
and old sound card with the operating system you presently are running, then you
need drivers for the motherboard chipsets and for whatever video card (or
integrated video) you will be using.

All of the above points to another question:  Is it possible to find the PCI
equivalent (or near equivalent) of the old but important ISA sound card ???

As long as you are considering a jump to a faster motherboard, it might make
sense to modernize other parts of the hardware... Ben Myers

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:01:15 +1100, "Netmask" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for a Pentium 4 (or faster) motherboard that has one ISA slot
>for an old but important soundcard. Can anyone advise if such a beast is
>made? Brands, model numbers and all that jazz!
>cheers
>
>Fred Pickering
>
>