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From: "Reggie" <reggie@...>
> In article <004d01c1f9f0$7d693a40$b4f84382@w0x3x7>, James R. Acker 
> >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?
> 

No... I hadn't asked it to, so it must have just found the drivers. 
Unfortunately I don't have a backup option, no tape, no CD burner...and floppies would need too many. I may have to do something like that but will keep it as last resort.




> >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?

I found the option and why it comes up. It is about "polling" the game port for multiple interrupts.
I found out you get the box ONLY when the slotted choice box above is set to something other than blank. I saw it appear when I choose something there.

> 
> >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.

That is what I thought.

Reggie, listen I do want to thank you for going through all the bother and trying to help out.  I have at least a better idea of where the problem must be (cable or PC setup or hardare in PC). I need to figure out where to take it from here...I am going to try to resintall windows drivers for joystick, etc and see if it helps.

Thanks again, and I owe you one!

Jim

> See ya,
> 
> Reggie