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- Subject: Re: OS/2 Crashes when DOS makes sound!
- Message-ID: <16B628D16.CFORDE@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca>
- From: CFORDE@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca (Carl Forde)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 10:01:11 PST
- References: <C1FI8H.DG7@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <16B61D9F7.CFORDE@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca> <C1Gzq0.A36@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C1Gzq0.A36@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- holloway@clio (Bryan Holloway) writes:
-
- >CFORDE@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca (Carl Forde) writes:
- >
- >>In article <C1FI8H.DG7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- >>holloway@clio (Bryan Holloway) writes:
- >>
- >>>I'm having this rather frustrating OS/2 problem:
- >>>
- >>>Whenever I run a DOS program under OS/2, whether its a window or
- >>>full-screen, the entire operating system comes to a screeching
- >>>halt when the DOS application beeps (or uses the speaker in any way.)
- >>
- >>In the DOS SETTINGS try setting HW_NOSOUND (?) to ON. With this set
- >>the DOS box can't make a peep.
- >>
- >
- >Ok...but shouldn't there be a way to make it work correctly? I'd
-
- Oh, you want to hear what it is saying... :-)
- I think what you need to do then is change the HW_TIMER setting.
-
- >hate to have to enter the Settings for each of my DOS programs to make
- >them work correctly. I wonder if there are more up-to-date versions
-
- You could just change the settings in the Program Template and then use
- this template for other DOS programs. If you have Windows apps you will
- probably want to do the same for them too.
-
- >of the sound driver. (Incidentally, I'm running the 12/9/92 beta
- >release on a 486DX/33 with a SCSI Adaptec drive.)
- >
- >The aforementioned solution reminds me of a user who was getting parity
- >errors on his memory, so somebody told him to turn of parity-checking
- >in his BIOS! ;-)
-
- Yes, but I figured you would object if I told you to replace your
- application. ;-)
-
-
- Have fun,
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