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Victor,

Warp 3 with fp26 an eagle ess1868 sound card working fine when going to fp35
try using the old timer0.sys
driver.  I know that's not the error you're getting but I have had this
happen to me once before, I ended up going back to fp26 for stability
reasons.  I hope this works for you.

Victor Bien wrote in message <36f810b6@news3.us.ibm.net>...
>  I acquired enough parts cheaply enough to put together some Warp 3
>boxes that may be saleable as a means of promoting OS/2.  Star
>Office wil be installed as the main app.  These will be 486s on VLB
>mainboards with a combo VLB video cum I/O card.  The video chip is a
>Cirrus Logic 5426.  The uarts are only 8250s so one for a modem will
>go through a supplemental serial card with a 16550 uart.  The VLB
>achieves reasonable video acceleration so the screen performance
>looks acceptable to me.
>
>  I have applied FP39 to the base operating system (and left MMOS2
>at FP26 for the present) but as noted before I couldn't get the
>ESS1868 to work beyond FP26.  I can't leave it at FP26 because the
>latest Netscape 2.02 requires FP35 or above I think.  When the
>ES1868DD.sys device driver loads it crashes with a Trap D and the
>following (excluding the register information - please tell me if
>these are required):
>
>location 0168:fff49162 - 000e:c162
>
>6000 9084
>
>048600b4
>Internal revision 8.263_uni, 98/10/14
>
>  From previous communications in this group I got various versions
>of the ESS1868 driver all with the same result, except that I
>didn't note the location and other details each time.
>
>  Trying to use a sound card with a different chip led nowhere!
>The Avance Logic System's ALS120 chip gives no sound at all.  Same
>with an Aztech 1605 or something like that.  The device drivers
>appear to load correctly as config.sys is processed but no sound.
>The device driver packages were downloaded from ALS's and Aztech's
>sites as something like ALS100+_W3.zip and Nova-OS2.zip, unzipped
>and installed using MInstall.  I commented out the lines invoking
>the ESS driver.  The other config.sys lines relating to D:\MMOS2
>were left alone.
>
>  The ALS card works OK under Windows 3.11, didn't try with the
>Aztech.
>
>  Wondering if any of you can help me get through this bog?  I know
>my Creative Sound Blaster card works (at FP39) but I don't want to
>have to fit one of these since even now they are too expensive.  My
>idea is to produce a *low cost* Warp 3 box to maximise the chance of
>getting new OS/2 users!
>
>TIA
>
>Victor Bien
>VCB Computing Alternatives (R)
>Employing network marketing concepts to promote OS/2
>The network is the channel (apologies to Sun).
>Use and help promote OS/2 to your friends and associates and teach
>them to do the same!
>