SENSATION!  (250-1650)       Adding a Sound Card        Faxback Doc. # 2630

Adding An Additional Sound Card

You will find below two different set of instructions for installing the 
optional Sound Blaster Board.  Choose the option that fits the port address
you will be using in your setup of the board.

If you add a Sound Blaster Pro or compatible board all functions will work
except:

      * Phone Center will not function with an additional sound card
        installed.
      * The text-to-speech does not work consistently. In WinMate, if you
        click on the "Speak Text" option, it does. It then gets caught in 
        a loop so that, if you choose to print, it speaks the text while 
        printing. Every time you execute a new function, it speaks the text.

Port 220 installation for Sound Blaster Pro or compatibles.

This installation method is recommended.  We must edit the following files.

*Note  For this procedure to work, a replacement Audio cable must be 
       ordered from National Parts, part # W-0411 under Catalog # 
       250-1099.

  National Parts customer phone line      1-800-442-2425 or 817-870-5600.

1.   When physically installing the Sound card, replace the existing black
     audio cable from the back of the cd-rom drive with the new audio cable
     ( NP# W-0411 under cat.# 25-1640 ).
     The New cable has a connector for the LMS cd-rom on one end and a
     SBPro connector on the other end.

2.   Edit the SYSTEM.INI  and change the shell line 
      from   "SHELL=DESKTOP.EXE" 
      to     "SHELL=PROGMAN.EXE"

3.   Install the Sound Blaster from DOS according to its documentation.
     Set the Sound Blaster to port 220, IRQ 7 and DMA 1.

4.   In the Sensation's setup ( C:\BIN\SETUPMMS ) the Multimedia section
     must be "Disabled" for the sound blaster to work at port 220.

5.   In the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, use a DOS editor and type REM at the
     begining of the lines that contain VISBIOS and SNDMIXER.EXE.
      from   "loadhigh \bin\VISBIOS"
      to     "rem loadhigh \bin\VISBIOS"

      from   "if exist c:\windows\sndmixer.exe c:\windows\sndmixer /r..."
      to     "rem if exist c:\windows\sndmixer.exe c:\windows\sndmixe..."

6.   In the Control Panel, under Drivers, remove the three Tandy drivers.

        Tandy MMA Wave/MIDI Port
        Tandy Wave/MIDI Synthesizer
        Tandy Virtual DSP Driver

7.   Edit the SYSTEM.INI using Notepad and remove the following device
     line under the 386 Enhanced section.

     DEVICE=VDSPD.386    (If the Virtual DSP driver was installed)

Note:  Now restart Windows and install the Sound Blaster drivers for
         Windows according to its documentation.
         Multimedia was disabled to install the Sound Blaster at port 220.
         There will not be any sound from Sensation's line out RCA jacks
         when playing an audio CD, unless you replace the audio cable with
         the cable from national parts (NP# W-0411 under cat.# 25-1640 ).

Port 240 installation for Sound Blaster Pro or compatibles.


1.   Install the Sound Blaster from DOS according to its documentation.
     Set the Sound Blaster to port 240, IRQ 7 and DMA 1.

2.   In the Sensation's setup ( C:\BIN\SETUPMMS ) the Multimedia section
     must be "Enabled".

Note:   If Multimedia is disabled you will not get any sound from the
        Sensation's line out RCA jacks when playing an audio CD.

3.   In the Control Panel, under Drivers, remove the 3 Tandy drivers.
        
        Tandy MMA Wave/MIDI Port
        Tandy Wave/MIDI Synthesizer
        Tandy Virtual DSP Driver

4.   Edit the SYSTEM.INI file using Notepad and remove the following device
     line under the 386 Enhanced section:
     
        DEVICE=VDSPD.386    (If the Virtual DSP driver was installed)

Note:   You will need to restart Windows to install the SBPro drivers.

Now install the Sound Blaster drivers for Windows according to its
documentation.

This option allows you to connect the two RCA cables from the line out
ports on the Sensation to the 1/8 inch line input jack on the SBPro card.
Now you can play an audio CD and hear the music through the external
speakers connected to the SBPro card.

(RL/SM-06/01/94)