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Re: an exteremely weird sb16 problem

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From: Harry Broomhall
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:00
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On Sat, 11 Oct 1997 19:51:11 GMT, briansheehanXXX@hotmail.com wrote:

>On Sat, 11 Oct 1997 17:29:23 GMT, haeb@pc60.demon.co.uk (Harry
>Broomhall) wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:25:47 GMT, briansheehanXXX@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>If anyone can crack the following problem they will have my undying
>>>gratitude.
>>>
>>>I have just tried moving my SB16 SCSI from one computer to the other,
>>>the only problem is that in the process of doing so I seem to have
>>>lost the ability to run sound effects or play wav files. However, if I
>>>try and play music either from a CD or within a program such as
>>>Wolfenstein it still works OK.
>>>
>>    Wolfenstein 3D uses FM for the music (I seem to remember).
>>
>>    You *have* checked that the mixer settings have the faders up for
>>wave, and that the wave channel is enabled?
>
>I think so on this - but since I installed win95 on a clean machine I
>would have thought that they would be enabled - maybe I'm missing
>something!
>
>
  Yes - its Win95, and there's no telling how its going to set the
mixer.  If it failed to detect the wave device it could even disable
it.

>>
>>    The other thing to check is that the IRQ for the card in Win95
>>matches that set by the DOS drivers.
>
>
>As far as I can tell the IRQs are right - it's certainly the obvious
>thing to be wrong though.
>
>
     There is no substitute for actualy checking the values against
each other.  Win95 has a nasty habit of claiming that IRQs and
suchlike are right on soundcards, when they are manifestly wrong.

    Regards,
          Harry.
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From: haeb@pc60.demon.co.uk (Harry Broomhall)
Subject: Re: an exteremely weird sb16 problem
Date: 1997/10/11
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