Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!central!convex!usenet From: friedber@convex.UUCP (Don Friedberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware Subject: Re: MCA Soundblaster? Keywords: PS/2, MCA SoundBlaster, Music, Adlib Message-ID: <1991May14.190929.23060@convex.com> Date: 14 May 91 19:09:29 GMT References: <91126.222813CES8@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991May10.012803.23642@epas.toronto.edu> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: friedber@convex.UUCP (Don Friedberg) Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA Lines: 36 Nntp-Posting-Host: neptune.convex.com In article <1991May10.012803.23642@epas.toronto.edu> ksteele@epas.toronto.edu (Ken Steele) writes: >I think I joined the internet just as the discussion was ending, but >did someone report a MicroChannel version of the Creative Labs >SoundBlaster card? I love my PS/2, but finding peripherals is a real >headache! > >Is the MCA Soundblaster card hard vaporware, or is it already on the >shelves? I can probably have someone local order one once I have an >order number... > >Sorry if this is repetitious, and thanks in advance. > > Yours, > > Ken Steele > I got my Soundblaster MCV (that's what Creative Labs calls it) a couple of weeks ago. I have a PS/2 model 70 16mhz and it did indeed have the bug mentioned in the previous notes. After verifying that fact with the Creative Labs technical people I sent the board back to them to be fixed. I made a map of all of the components on the board before I sent it back. IF the thing ever shows up I will post to this group what changes were made. I suspect that they will be changing the OR gate that was previously reported to be the problem. Don P.S. One other problem I had was that the output level of the board was too low for the Sony Amplifying speakers that I bought to detect a signal and thus I got barely audible sound from the board. The fact the the Soundblaster MCV does not have an amplifier definitely caused a small problem. I was able to get it working with an old clock radio/cassette player unit that I had which had an auxilary(sp?) jack.