Jaton SonicWave-SR User Manual
Copyright © 2001 Jaton Corporation, USA.
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TRADEMARK ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SonicWave User's Guide, Jaton Corporation 1998. All rights
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FortéMedia, Inc. is a registered trademark of FortéMedia, Inc.
Direct3D, DirectX, DirectSound, DirectSound3D, DirectMusic, and
DirectInput are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation; Windows,
Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION............................................................................6
WHY PCI SOUND CARD?.............................................................6
FEATURES: .....................................................................................7
ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT............................................................7
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS...........................................................8
HARDWARE DESCRIPTION.......................................................9
SONICWAVE-SR2 PCBLAYOUT................................................9
SONICWAVE-SR4 PCBLAYOUT................................................9
SONICWAVE-SR6 PCBLAYOUT..............................................10
HARDWARE INSTALLATION..................................................10
4.1 INSTALLATION STEPS: ........................................................10
DRIVER INSTALLATION:.........................................................13
ÿÿ WINDOWS 98 DRIVER INSTALLATION..........................13
CD Autorun Setup.................................................................19
CD Manual Setup...................................................................21
V ERIFYING THE FM801 DRIVER INSTALLATION FOR
WINDOWS 98...............................................................................24
FORTÉMEDIA CONTROL PANEL FOR WINDOWS 98............26
ÿÿWINDOWS ME DRIVER INSTALLATION......................33
CD Autorun Setup.................................................................34
V ERIFYING THE FM801 DRIVER INSTALLATION FOR
WINDOWS ME..........................................................................35
ÿÿWINDOWS 2000/XP DRIVER INSTALLATION.................36
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ÿÿWINDOWS NT4.0 DRIVER INSTALLATION.....................38
PCI Sound Card Driver install from Autorun.....................38
Manually Install PCI Sound Card Driver............................40
V ERIFYING THE FM801 INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS
NT4.0.............................................................................................46
WINDOWS NT DRIVER UNINSTALL.........................................49
DOS DRIVER INSTALLATION (WITHOUT WINDOWS)..........51
FM801 PCI Sound Card Step by Step DOS Drive
Installation...............................................................................52
EZAUDIO™ SOFTWARE APPLICATION.............................56
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................56
ACTIVATING 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
RECORD MIXER.........................................................................64
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS &
TROUBLESHOOTING .................................................................67
WHAT ARE THE CONFIGURATION PROBLEMS?....................68
WHAT ARE DMA CHANNELS AND PCI? ................................69
WHAT SHOULD I DO IF I HAVE PROBLEMS WITH PLAYING
GAMES?.........................................................................................69
CAN I INSTALL TWO SOUND CARDS?......................................70
WHY ARE SOME OF THE WINDOWS MULTIMEDIA
COMPONENTS (I.E. MEDIA PLAYER) MISSING?.....................70
WHAT HAPPENED IF MY FM801 SOUND CARD AND DRIVER
ARE BOTH PROPERLY INSTALLED, YET, THERE IS STILL NO
SOUND?.........................................................................................70
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HOW DO I CHANGE VOLUME AND BALANCE LEVELS IN
WINDOWS 9X?.............................................................................71
MY MICROPHONE RECORDS AT VERY LOW LEVELS, WITH
DISTORTION, OR NOT AT ALL?................................................71
WHY DOESN’T MY CD AUDIO WORK?....................................72
WHAT TO DO IF SOUND CARD IS NOT FOUND OR IRQ IS NOT
ASSIGNED TO FM801 PCI SOUND 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
FORTÉMEDIA CONTROL PANEL?............................................75
WHY ARE TWO INTERRUPTS ALLOCATED FOR MY FM801
SOUND CARD?..............................................................................75
TECHNICAL SUPPORT................................................................76
LIMITED WARRANTY................................................................78
OTHER LIMITS.............................................................................78
EXCLUSIVE OBLIGATION...........................................................79
OTHER STATEMENTS................................................................79
TERMS AND CONDITIONS..........................................................79
SERVICES AGREEMENT: .............................................................80
ENTIRE OBLIGATION.................................................................80
REDUCING WARRANTY CLAIM REJECTIONS..................81
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INTRODUCTION
Congratulations! You have purchased a Jaton PCI
Sound Card that will bring you endless enjoyment
in playing SoundBlaster games, computer music,
and many more features! With this Sound Card
you will experience the latest audio technology…..
so get ready to be impressed!
SonicWave-SR sound card is an advanced audio
controller for the PCI Bus. FortéMedia (chipset
maker), a leader in the PC Multimedia industry,
developed the FM801 technology. It is
compatible with Microsoft Windows, Microsoft
DirectX and Thousands 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 games on
real DOS environment.
SonicWave-SR PCI Sound card contains the result
of many years of experience in PC games, sound
and communication development. The sound can
be created with FM or wave-table synthesis and
held to a professional performance standard. Each
sound in the wave-table is derived from real
instrument sounds that have been carefully produced for inclusion in FortéMedia's extensive
sound library.
Why PCI Sound Card?
The PCI bus is far superior to the ISA bus. It is capable of
transferring data on a wider 32-bit bandwidth bus. This
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allows much more data to pass from the PCI bus to the
host processor. The ISA bus is only capable of 16-bit
bandwidth transfers. Using the PCI bus will allow up to a
20 times increase in speed over much slower DMA
transfers on the ISA bus. This drastically reduces the
overhead on the host CPU. This tremendous processing
power opens up new possibilities for sound cards. Realtime software based sound fields are now possible without
bogging down the host CPU.
Features:
• PCI 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 Environmental Audio (EAX) game
titles Compatible
• Native DOS Game Support without Software
Emulation
• Analog/Digital Joystick Interface
• Legacy Audio compatibility
• Hardware Sound Blaster Pro compatibility
• AdLib compatible Music Synthesizer
• MPU401 UART mode MIDI interface Joystick
About This Document
Many people don’t read manuals, however, an
ounce of caution is worth a pound of prevention,
so we do strongly recommended that you take a
few moments to go through these pages before
installing your SonicWave-SR hardware and
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software.
This user’s guide contains Hardware and Software
Installation pilots to setup your SonicWave Sound
Card and its Driver Software for Windows9x/Me,
Windows2000/XP, Windows NT 4.0 and DOS
environment. It also provides the instructions on
how to use Audio Rack, an easy to use application
for playing digital MIDI music, wave sound and CD
audio on your PC. There is a "Setup" section in
this user’s guide, providing 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 card drivers.
System Requirements
• Pentium CPU or equivalent*
• Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000,
Windows XP, Windows NT4.0 or MS-DOS 6.0
or higher
• Microsoft DirectX version 6 or higher
• PCI Bus with one available Bus Master slot
• 16MB of RAM (32MB if you use software
Wave-table with 4MB sound library)
• Hard disk drive, 12MB free on your hard disk
• CD-ROM drive and Audio cable
• • Speakers
* Wavetable software bundled package recommends Pentium 166 or
higher.
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HARDWARE DESCRIPTION
SonicWave-SR2 PCBLAYOUT
VIDEO AUX TAD
Plate
VIDEO 1
R G L G
PANASONIC 1
L G G R
SONY 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
FRONT SPEAKER
REAR SPEAKER
AUX 1
TAD 1
PC SPK
JP1
GAME 1
1
PCI Local Bus - -PnP
SPDIF OUT
4 channel sound output
* SPDIF OUT = 2 Channel sound output only.
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SonicWave-SR6 PCBLAYOUT
VIDEO AUX TAD
Plate
VIDEO 1
R G L G
PANASONIC 1
L G G R
SONY 1
MIC
LINE IN
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 Steps:
Ì Ì Turn your computer’s
power off.
Turn off the power to your
PC and any attached
peripheral devices such as
Printers, Scanner and
Monitor.
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Ì Ì Discharge static
electricity.
Touch a metal plate on
your system to ground
yourself and discharge any
static electricity.
Ì Ì Remove the cover from
your PC.
Remove the computer’s
cover, retain the screws if
any.
Ì Ì Remove the silver
bracket on the back of
the PC.
Find an empty PCI slot
inside your computer.
Remove the silver bracket
behind the slot where you
want to install the sound
card. Save the screw.
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Ì Ì Loss the screw and
remove the bracket .
Remove the metal plate
from the slot you have
chosen and put the screw
aside.
Ì Ì Place the sound card
into an available PCI
slot.
[Before you remove the
sound card from its static
resistant 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 PCI Bus expansion slot and gently
push down into. Secure the card to expansion slot
with the screw you removed from the metal plate.
Ì Ì Replace the cover on your PC.
Slide the cover back on your PC, and secure it with
the screws. Reconnect your power cord, and all
cables.
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DRIVER INSTALLATION:
The FM801 PCI sound card has the following driver
support,
• Microsoft Windows 98/ME
• Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
• Microsoft NT 4.0
• Native DOS
The sound driver for Microsoft Windows operating
system are supported latest Microsoft compliance
and direct sound games, also supported the
legacy DOS SoundBlaster Pro compatible games as
well. The following sections and 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 card install physically. We strongly
recommend you installing the hardware before
proceeding the driver installation.
• The driver set is in the CD which comes with your PCI
sound card.
ÿ Windows 98 Driver Installation
After power-up your computer, Windows 98 Plug-n-Play
will automatically detects your sound card and pops-up
the install wizard. Insert the software CD into your CD
ROM drive now. (Typically, D: or E: drive, etc.)
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Installation Steps:
1. The Wizard will be guides you to begin the
installation.
2. Click “Next” to continue.
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3. Follow the instruction on the Windows. Click “Next”
to continue.
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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 click “OK”.
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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.
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8. Windows now starts copying the files. Click “Finish”
to finish the Audio/Game Device installation.
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9. FM801 Joystick Device should be found again. This is
second part of the installation. (Repeat the same
procedures indicated above from step 2-8).
The Setup utility can be run either through CD
Autorun feature implemented by Microsoft
Windows if properly activated, or one may run it
manually by executing the Setup program
provided in the driver disk or CD.
The utility will give users flexibility on driver
installation. It can be used for the following
purposes.
• Install driver before the hardware installation.
• One step driver 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 driver.
CD Autorun Setup
The Autorun setup feature can only run with CD.
When the Windows Plug-and-Play detection has
prompt the “Add hardware Wizard” to you, click
on “Cancel” to stop the . This utility will enable
you to install drivers for Windows only, and
DirectX 8.0 engine for the PCI sound card. As the
CD is inserted (assuming the auto-insertion
feature is enabled under your Windows operating
system) the PCI sound card driver setup menu will
appear on your screen.
1. Select using your pointing device (e.g. mouse) on the
correct operating system that you are currently
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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 button to continue the
installation.
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3. Windows system has copying all files from CD to
your local hard disk, please 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 are mainly for those who are
still using the old version of Windows 95.
1. Double click on "My Computer” from your desktop.
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2. Double click on your CD-ROM drive. (Make sure the
driver’s CD is inserted.)
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3. Double click on the Setup icon to start the driver
installation process.
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4. Please 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 selecting “Properties”.
2. Click on the “Device Manager” tag.
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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 PCI Joystick Device.
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