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i agree.  i have given up on the opti

Jim wrote in message <38012632.810056@news.modnet.com.au>...
>The opti sound cards have always been a bastard of a card to set up,
>Considering the price of a new card is cheap these days I would
>seriously consider binning the opti and replacing it with a new card.
>"Creative" are the easiest of them all to set up and I recon the most
>compatible of cards with games.
>You can get a cheap sondblaster just about anywhare, If you can't get
>a creative get a ess card they arn't to bad
>
>Jim
>On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:25:38 +1300, "cowboy" <cowboyz@actrix.gen.nz>
>wrote:
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>>well well.. let me see how far I got tonight..   I think my first problem
si
>>my opti sound card which I am really starting to dispise!..
>>the sound card is set up to ignore the cdrom.  in the setup for the
>>soundcard it asks if you want to use the ide port on the sound card or the
>>motherboard.  I choose the m/b and it decided to put a command in my
>>config.sys file to turn my cd off.  So I spent 2 hours figuring that out
and
>>ended up deleting my ide drivers/ cdrom and sound card and set it all up
>>again.  Once again the sound card decided to interfer with the config.sys
>>and put lines in there relating to the cdrom.  So I went and deleted all
of
>>them and reinstalled mcexc  or what ever the hell that cd rom thing is.
Now
>>I have my cd back but I can't play audio cd's through ANY program.   I can
>>however hit the play button on the front of my cd and listen to music.
This
>>is only a problem with audio.  Data cd's have no trouble.
>>I am convinced that this is a problem with the setup files in the
soundcard
>>although I have downloaded every f..g file relating to this sound card and
>>they all did the same thing..   I built this system and when I set it up
the
>>very first time it did not ask me what ide interface I wanted to use.
That
>>is a new thing!  Not sure where it came from.
>>
>>ok  programs I have tried ripping cds with.
>>
>>audio grabber
>>easy da extractor 3
>>music match 4
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>>hgerrits wrote in message <01bf12f6$a2180080$258a86c2@ns>...
>>>Sometimes you have more than one connection possebilety mayby it's not
>>>connected right.
>>>What also can be is that in the options that you have from your soundcard
>>>you have the cd disabled.
>>>Have a look there that's the only things I can think about.
>>>Regards Harm gerrits
>>>
>>>
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