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In article <3gj11u$cc7@pan.nofc.forestry.ca> mgartrel@nofc.forestry.ca (Mike Gartrell) writes:

>I have a problem.  I have an old 8-bit soundblaster card and am trying to set
>up my PC to take voicemail.  When I installed a Zoltrix 14,4 modem that does

etc., etc.

Only speaking as the deaf ear this problem fell on before from a friend, I'd
say your sound card IRQ is conflicting.  The voicemail modem cards have their
own SB clone onboard, and it uses IRQ 5 in most cases, assuming your SB card
follows Creative's original recommendation to use IRQ 7.  Since most SB (and
clone) owners have had difficulty with their sound card and printer on the
same IRQ, Creative modified their position to recommend IRQ 5, normally used
for LPT2.

Now, I can't say you'll not have problems putting your SB back to IRQ 7, but I
had the need to do this - three active COM ports requires three IRQs - and
have had no problems yet.  In fact, using Windows (until I get OS/2 fine
tuned), I've used my 8-bit SB to both sample and play back while the print
manager was printing, no problems were noted.

Lastly, don't change the DMA address, or your DRQ (should be 1) because lots
of programmers hard code this address, only checking your environment variable
for the IRQ.

Cheers
Tom
USN (Ret)
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