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Problems with Win95 and soundblaster 16

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From: Rob Butler
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 00:00
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I built my current PC about two months ago and had problems with the
soundcard vanishing.  Sometimes it went halfway through a game or as I
started windows etc.  After trying lots of combinations of settings, I
used the default memory setting and IRQ2.  This was working no problem
until I switched to Windows95......

At first I had my card set to use a high IRQ like 10.  No problem -
Win95 was happy.  Then I realised I wanted to play games under dos
(namely Doom which supports irq 2,5,7) so I chose a lower number.
This resulted in my sound card vanishing at periodic intervals when
using Win95.

Then I forced Win95 to use IRQ2 for my soundcard by editing the
registry.  I have removed the programmable interrupt controller and
everything seems to be running ok.  Will this present any long term
problems for me.  Everything else seems to be running fine (now I have
set my ECP printer port to run as a standard printer port and used
'raw' spooling).

Has anyone else come across this problem and if so, what did they do
about it?

Cheers



Rob Butler
Whizzing along under Win95 beta
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From: rob@pulsar.demon.co.uk (Rob Butler)
Subject: Problems with Win95 and soundblaster 16
Date: 1995/06/14
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