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Since you have an SB32, you do not need to set any jumper.  The SB32 does
not have any onboard RAm to disable.  Just check the seating of the SIMMs.

Cheran Shunmugavel

kitb@hotmail.com wrote in message <36138502.E5099B8F@hotmail.com>...
>Ken
>     Your suggestion I have NOT tried.  I have the SB 32/AWE PNP and the
>jumper on the card is a new suggestion.  I can't understand why this
>card worked once though since I have not set any jumpers.  Heck, I
>didn't even know it HAD a jumper that was supposed to be set!!! The
>manual for this card is vague.  But as I explained, the very next time I
>rebooted, the same error message popped up again, "Can't load
>'synthgm.sbk' bank".  I would think that if a jumper on the card needs
>to be set, and I haven't done that, that it would never have worked.
>But it's worth a try and I'll do that next.  I didn't have any problem
>seating the simms into their sockets but I'll reseat them too, just in
>case.  Hey, thanks for the tip.
>
>kitb at hotmail dot com
>
>
>Ken Alverson wrote:
>>
>> This looks like the key to the problem.  Do you have an SB32 or an AWE32,
>> they are different (SB32 comes with no onboard ram for instance).  On the
>> awe32 you need to change a jumper to make it recognize external ram,
which
>> at the same time disables the on board ram.  If I remember correctly this
>> jumper is very near the ram slots.  If this jumper is set correctly, it
>> sounds like a hardware problem in recognizing the ram, I remember it
being
>> hard to get the ram in correctly, the slots were a little too big, so I
>> sorta had to jam it in, I've seen many cases where ram is not recognized
>> because it's not quite perfectly seated (mostly computers, not sound
cards,
>> but same principle applies).  Try reseating the ram chips a few times and
>> checking the available ram.  If not you may have a defective ram slot.
This
>> doesn't sound like a software problem to me...
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> kitb@hotmail.com wrote in message <36124299.1DCAC4AF@hotmail.com>...
>> >     The AWE32cp.exe prog shows a red bar instead of green, as it's
>> >supposed to, denoting that I have "0 KB of 0 KB available".  Not so.  I
>> >have two 4 meg simms installed.  In the "Available Synth" box (under the
>> >"synth" tab), it is blank but I have a choice of choosing "general midi"
>> >yet when I do choose it, I then get another message that reads:  "The
>> >selected file contains unrecognized format".  I've got several sbk files
>> >and it will recognize none of them.  Baloney!  It worked fine (albeit
>> >only once) on the very same sbk file that it now says is
>> >unrecognizable!