In article <004d01c1f9f0$7d693a40$b4f84382@w0x3x7>, James R. Acker
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jacker@...> writes
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>From: "Reggie" <reggie@...>
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>> >If I can find the original drivers I can try putting back the SB16 card
>> >that once worked and verifying that this in fact is failing in the same
>> >way...or I can try and find the receipt and get a trade.
>> >
>
>I just did this. It fails in exactly the same way, but seems to take a
>half second longer before
>freezing. This is with the SB16 now...I put it back in and plug&play
>recognized it an set up the
>appropriate drives.
Did you ask it to? Or did it go off and find the old drivers? If it
went off and found it's own drivers then it could be that you are
getting a mixture of old and new drivers installed? Do you have any
system backup software? If so then a reasonable idea might be to
completely backup your boot partition (Just in case you need to get
things back) and then re-format and re-install windows? Or did you
install the card with a fresh install?
It's a pity I haven't got win2k knocking around, then I could install it
and the drivers but I waited and went for XP instead.
>
>> Don't forget I'm monitoring the midi out
>> of the card before my bios has completely POST'ed, once windows is
>> running there is absolutely nothing from the card.
>
>This has to be the crux of the problem. I get the chatter even after
>Windows is up.
>
>
>Strange, when I went back to the SB card, I didn't have that option
>anymore either.
>>
Hold on a mo', I've got A dual boot PC (win98&XP), I just checked in
Device manager in win98 and there are some 'extra' options that aren't
in XP.
there is a thing about joystick and sharing an IRQ with the LPT port,
were they the options you were talking about?
>Another thing (god...there are so many) that puzzles me is I can turn
>OFF transmit channel, receive channel, device ID and STILL it reacts as
>soon as power up. Again, I can do this with the IN (sb card) cable
>pulled out of the An1x (OUT) and it makes no difference. I would expect
>it to ignore anything coming in in the MIDI port with all those things
>turned off. Maybe I misunderstand the meaning of IFF in the context.
This is indeed strange, basically you are switching off the synths
ability to receive those types of messages.
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See ya,
Reggie