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- Path: sparky!uunet!ivgate!beeble!tdavis
- From: tdavis@beeble.omahug.org (Thomas Davis)
- Subject: Problems w/MS Windows Sound System
- Organization: Beeble Planning Commission
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:03:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bzzs1I.3qp@beeble.omahug.org>
- Lines: 74
-
- Ok, I'm tired of fighting with this, and so I'm going to post about
- it, and hope somebody has an idea.. Please mail me and post your
- replies, for it seems I don't get everything in this newsgroup (have
- to talk to my feed about that..)
-
- Basically, here's what I've got:
-
- DVX, v1.02 (picked it up at Interop)
- MS Windows 3.1
- Microsoft Windows Sound System (this is not the PC speaker stuff)
- ATI Wonder+, with 1meg of ram; am using 800x600x16 Win31 driver. (DVX
- doesn't like the ATI 800x600x256 color driver :-(
- Noname clone 386/25 w/387; has 8megs of ram; AMI BIOS, dated 7/7/91
- 105 meg Quantum IDE/hd
- MS-DOS 5.0
-
- Here's what it's doing:
-
- When I go into windows, using QEMM as the memory manager, and use the
- MS Sound System, I can play sounds, I can record sounds, but it will
- eventually lock up the system on me. I've tried in standard mode,
- I've tried enhanced. The only way I've been able to get it to work,
- is to use himem.sys and no other memory management. This occurs no
- matter what mode (standard vs enhanced). (I just noticed that it runs
- longer in standard mode, but it still locks up and dies.) This is all
- with the Microsoft software; it could the that part, and not the sound
- driver it self..
-
- BUT, at least, I get sound that you can understand when using it
- outside of DVX. Now, when I try to run Windows under DVX (winx or
- full screen win31), HA! You get total garbage out of the speakers.
- DVX will let you run Windows, but boy, it's tiring to hear the garbage
- coming out the speakers. I have read, and tried the white pages on
- what to do on debugging this problem, and have only been able to delay
- the lock ups..
-
- Here's my current config.sys:
-
- DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS R:1 RAM ARAM=D000-D3FF ST:F DMA=64 LD FSTC
- rem device=c:\windows\himem.sys
- DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
- FILES=80
- SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /p /E:512
- STACKS=0,0
- DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:2 C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 C:\ATI\MOUSE.SYS 3BUTTONS
- BUFFERS=1
-
- Current autoexec.bat:
-
- @ECHO OFF
- c:\qemm\loadhi /r:1 c:\qemm\buffers=15
- c:\windows\AD_WRAP.COM
- PROMPT $p$g
- PATH C:\QEMM;C:\UTIL;C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS;C:\DVX;C:\DVX\BIN;C:\XLN\BIN40;
- SET TEMP=C:\DOS
- C:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:2 /RES=26192 /SQT=D000-D3FF C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE 512:256
- c:\qemm\loadhi /r:3 lsl
- c:\qemm\loadhi /r:3 3c507
- c:\qemm\loadhi /r:3 tcpip
- SET NAME=pc
- SET EXCELAN=C:\XLN
-
- I have removed all of the LAN stuff, and it still locks up (including
- removing the 3c507)
-
- So, any ideas on what to try, other than take it back? I'd like to at
- least get it to work under Windows31 outside of DVX reliably..
-
- --
- Thomas Davis, ECNE | Internet: tdavis@beeble.omahug.org
- Systems Engineer, | UUCP: uunet!ivgate!beeble!tdavis
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