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- From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
- Subject: GUS Memory problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.043157.28123@wam.umd.edu>
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- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:31:57 GMT
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- I have a GUS with 1 meg on board (70ns original + 768k of 80ns). Every time
- I run the DRAM program I end up with the last bank of 2 chips reported bad.
- Everything works OK (well, almost...read on), but this concerns me.
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- Today I dled the new Windows drivers from the Gravis BBS along with the
- new Patch Manager program (nice!). Since the Patch Manager has a constant
- display of available GUS memory, I decided to fill up GUSes memory with
- patches in order to test the memory (to see if everything sounded OK with
- the memory filled). Well, it didn't. When memory got up into the highest
- bank of 256k, one or two of the Drum kit patches started sounding messed
- up. Very upsetting I must say. I noticed that the non-drum kit sounds
- always sounded OK though. Even if I first load the Drum kit patches, and
- then fill up the memory by loading a bunch of the non-drum kit patches, all
- sounded OK except for one or two of the DRUMKIT patches. It makes a wierd
- staticky noise during playback of the affected patches. Upon unloading of
- the other patches, the Drumkit patches which wer previously affected sound
- OK again. It seems like the GUS is always moving the patches around in
- memory every time they are loaded or unloaded. Is this true? If not,
- it could just be a problem with the GUS and not with my memory.
-
- I am asking for opinions here, about what I should do. I don't feel like
- opening up my machine until its absolutely necessary (I have this HUGE tower
- case neatly tucked under my desk...). Think I definitely have a ram problem
- or can someone tell me whether this happens to them also...? Is the DRAM
- program probably reliable in this case?
-
- Thanks for any help/suggestions...
-
- (I'll UL the new drivers and program to epas ASAP)
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