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Soundblaster (not pro) hangs with Digital I/O

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From: Steve Austin
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:16
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I have a Sounblaster (V1.5 with the 2.0 software) in my no-name
386-33MHz system.  The problem that I am having is that it hangs
when using digitized sound.  I have taken everything out of the
bus except the video card (Super VGA) and the HD/FD controler.
Everything is fine, however, when emulating the Adlib.

My suspicion is centered on the DMA, since I have tried all
IRQ lines and IRQ7 does no seem to be used by anything else.
Is it likely that either the video card or the disc controller
are intefering with the Soundblaster?

When playing short sounds (such as the Windows *.WAV files
in 3.1), the Sounblaster only crashes the machine sometimes,
but when playing longer sequences of sounds (e.g. intros to
games), it crashes fairly regularly.

Any ideas?

	Steve Austin
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From: saustin@bbn.com (Steve Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,rec.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Soundblaster (not pro) hangs with Digital I/O
Date: 14 Apr 1992 16:16:22 GMT
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