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Nigel Barker wrote:

>It's an AMI BIOS, no indication what brand of motherboard.

Have a look for some of the other chips on the board; there should be
two or three with the same name (SiS, UMC, OPTi...).

There are known problems with some UMC chipsets and recent graphics
cards; the high DMA channels seem to be blocked.  I have this problem
with my Soundblaster 16 and a Hercules Dynamite, but it can apply to
other models.  My only solution was to force the 16-bit DMA to share the
8-bit DMA channel.  IIRC, however, you can't do this with a PAS.

Strangely (or not), my Adaptec 1542C has no problems using DMA 5, since
it has its own DMA controller; soundcards are passive DMA (using the
motherboard DMA controller).  Sadly, UMC's controller isn't up to the
job.

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