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From: "Reggie" <reggie@...>

> >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.

> 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.

> >Could you check in your setup and see if in the control panel, if you 
> >go into the joystick icon, there is a check box for something about 
> >"polling joystick" down at the bottom of the second menu. I have tried 
> >both settings, but should this be off? It is damn confusing, because if 
> >the SB card is "acting" like a joystick it might need some joystick 
> >stuff enabled...on the other hand it might need it off...hard to know.
> >
> I don't have anything like that, I see the 'creative gameport' but 
> nothing about polling.
> 

Strange, when I went back to the SB card, I didn't have that option anymore either.
> 
> Actually, maybe, the Active sensing could be coming from the AN1x, which 
> would explain the constant chatter that you see. If you can see the 
> chatter with just the output of the AN1x connected to the SB midi in 
> then that would prove it.  Then you can effectively ignore the constant 
> chatter.
> 
> Have you tried turning on the PC and the AN1x without anything connected 
> then try connecting the out of the card to the in of the synth?
> 
> 

I tried it....it didn't make a difference.

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.