Specifications

this still fails, take the card to your local dealer. If it works in their machine fine, then your PC
has a problem.
66 Question: What are the main chips on the SW1000XG?
Answer: O.K from left to right:;The large chip just above the PCI connector is the XT94P21
PCI gate array custom designed by Yamaha for use on the DSP Factory and the SW1000XG, it
is a common chip to both cards.The chip just above this (YSS228E-F) is the DSP3 chip found in
the 02R digital mixing console along with the 03D mixing console and the DSP Factory card,
again this is a common chip to both cards. The DS2416 uses five of these for its functions. For
the DS2416 card, the 5 DSP3 processors are programmed to fully represent the functionality of
the 02R digital mixer.The chip next to the gate array is the flash ROM operating system for the
SW1000XG, and above this are several custom Yamaha processors and ram buffer chips.The
large chip towards the back of the card is the SWP30b which is the chip used by the
mu100r/a3000 sampler and the SW1000XG. This handles the voice data processing and the
effects processing.Beneath this is the H8 MIDI processor chip.;The back of the card features
additional ram (dsp buffering and other tasks) and Fairchild octal bi-directional data buss
transceivers.Top left on the front side is the Burr-Brown 20-bit converter (ADC).Surrounding this
are capacitor arrays and some of the timing components.Below this is the NEC 18-bit-DAC.Full
specs on all of the chips can be found at the respective companies’ web sites.
67 Question: How much does the card cost in my country?
Answer: Ask your local Yamaha outlet. This website is for tech support and product launches,
not really for hardware pricing.
68 Question: What operating system is the SW1000XG designed for?
Answer: Currently Windows 95, preferably the OSR2 (win95 450.b) release as this fixes many
bugs in Windows 95 itself and supports IRQ steering (see notes further in on this). The card
itself also works fully under Windows98. However, some of the audio applications discussed
and mentioned in this FAQ have not yet been tested by the companies concerned under
Windows 98 (not to the level we would like them anyway!). If in doubt about the application you
are intending to run working under Windows 98, then please contact your application vendors’
website. As of writing (June 98) many apps that Yamaha have tested display bugs when
running under Win98, with many cards that Yamaha have tested, thus proving that the app is at
fault and not the card.Please contact your software supplier if you find a BUG that manifests
itself in Win98 that was not present in Win95. Yamaha are not at liberty to divulge the tests that
we have carried out, and will not pass on any negative results in apps we have found, unless it
is directly as a result of using the SW1000XG. As of yet, the problems with Windows 98 that we
have found, are not as a result of the SW1000XG.
69 Question: Will the SW1000XG be difficult to install?
Answer: The SW1000XG is designed for complete compatibility with the Windows 95 &
Windows 98 Plug-and-Play specification. There are no jumpers to set or IRQ’s to configure. If
you have a single IRQ available, along with an upper memory block, you should have no
difficulties installing the SW1000XG. Just plug the card into an available buss master PCI slot,
start your computer and follow the simple on-screen instructions in the Windows Installation
Wizard. Please make sure you have your drivers disk handy when installing the
SW1000XG.The SW1000Xg uses one IRQ and one upper memory location block.It uses no
other system resources.Please make sure that you have the driver disk to hand when installing
the card.;The 3 files that are needed
are:;SW1000XG.INF;YMHXGDSP.DLL;VSWXGDSP.VXD;In total, less than 200k to get all of
the functions of this card running, which you must admit is pretty good !
70 Question: How do I de-install the SW1000XG?