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Re: SB16 hanging my machine

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From: Mark Kahrs [Creative Labs]
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:23
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Rob,

    Please mail me a copy of your system.ini file and your autoexec &
config.sys.  It seems like there might be some discrepancies in these files.
I will take a look at these and let you know what you can change to get it
to work.



Mark Kahrs
Creative Tech Support
mkahrs@clok.creaf.com




Rob Hughes <gangster@tripping.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I have been given a PC with an Intel Penitum Pro 200Mhz processor.  This
> sits on a motherboard with the Intel FX chipset.  The only cards installed
> are an S3 Trio64V+ 1Mb PCI video card and a SoundBlaster 16 Pro CSP ISA
card
> (model CT2290).  The problem is that I cannot get the SoundBlaster to work
> with Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 (it will work if OS/2 Warp 4 is
> installed).  As soon as the PC sees the soundcard the whole system hangs.
> The hardware settings are unused by anything else (IO 220, IRQ5, DMA1,
> HDMA5, IO300) and I have used the latest SB16 drivers from the site.
>
> The problem seems to go away if I first boot to a command prompt and
remove
> the c:\windows\system\sbfm.drv and sb16.drv files.  The sound card is
still
> detected (ie appears in the Win98 device manager) but obviously does not
> play sounds.  I cannot replace the card as I cannot see a way to get at
it.
>
> I think it may be something to do with the Pentium Pro processor.  Please
> can someone help?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Rob.
>
>
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From: "Mark Kahrs [Creative Labs]" <mkahrs@clok.creaf.com>
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Subject: Re: SB16 hanging my machine
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:23:06 -0600
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