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- From: gfr@dulcimer.mitre.org (Glenn Roberts)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
- Subject: Re: Soundblaster and 486's
- Keywords: soundblaster
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.122304.1679@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 12:23:04 GMT
- References: <ransley.2a901ee8-e@parnasus.dell.com> <1992Aug19.005119.12346@newshost.unh.edu> <mikeb.714251524@pandora>
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- Reply-To: gfr@dulcimer.mitre.org (Glenn Roberts)
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- In article <mikeb.714251524@pandora>, mikeb@pandora.dell.com (Michael Brundridge) writes:
- |> ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:
- |>
- |> >> I just bought a Soundblaster Pro. It works about 80% of the time.
- |> >> When it crashes, it CRASHES! I have a 486 25/50mhz DX2 machine.
- |> >> Is it true that Soundblasters just don't function well on a 486, let
- |> >> alone a fast 486? I've tried calling SB tech support....yeah right!
- |> >> That failing, I thought maybe someone here could advise. Thanks!
- |> >>--
- |> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> >> "Friends come and go....but enemies accumulate." - Murphy's Law
- |> >> Robert Ansley ransley@parnasus.dell.com
- |> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- |>
- |> > I have a 33/486 and it works just fine. Its never crashed at all.
- |>
- |> > G.Greene
- |> I have been told there is a second version of the card out that the
- |> duty cycle of the clock was changed on. And that this might fix
- |> the problem. This is only a rumor, I am trying to find out for sure
- |> from the CL engineers. As soon as I know I will post to c.s.i.p.s
- |>
-
- this sounds right. I had reported a problem with my SBPro (on a 386/33
- machine) and Creative Labs called me back to tell me to ship them the
- board so they could make some "patches" to the clock circuit. (By that
- time I had already retuned the board and bought a PAS16 though!).
-
-
- - glenn roberts, MITRE
- groberts@mitre.org
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