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kitb@hotmail.com,

  Ya check the seating of the SIMMs I had a problem with my SB32 and that was the
problem.

  Later.

kitb@hotmail.com wrote:

> 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!



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