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Article #19736Re: 486 too fast for Sound Blaster Pro?
From: Willard S. Akers
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:44
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:44
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In <mortenk.182.727557040@dhhalden.no> mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN) writes: >>I have not been able to get my Sound Blaster Pro to work in my Gateway >>486DX2/66. The TEST-SBP program works correctly and the card IS >>configured correctly, but it keeps playing bits and pieces of sound >>after applications exit. It also starts playing random sounds and noise >>both during and after the use of a program containing sound. >> >>I called Creative Labs (yes, it took a long time to get through!) and >>they said that the bus speed of the 486 is too fast for the SB Pro >>which causes the card to not be reset properly. They also said that >>they are working on a software fix that should be available in a couple >>of weeks. I had a problem with a SBPRO and a 486/33. It kept causing the system to crash. We set the jumpers to share the IRQ lines and it works ok now. knock on wood... Byron
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!hri.com!ukma!netnews.louisville.edu!starbase.spd.louisville.edu!wsaker01 From: wsaker01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Willard S. Akers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: 486 too fast for Sound Blaster Pro? Message-ID: <wsaker01.727987451@starbase.spd.louisville.edu> Date: 25 Jan 93 18:44:11 GMT References: <1jesu9INNi6l@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <mortenk.182.727557040@dhhalden.no> Sender: news@netnews.louisville.edu (Netnews) Organization: University of Louisville Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: starbase.spd.louisville.edu