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Date:	Sat, 11 May 2002 12:57:30 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: New Sound card falling short under OS/2

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Jordan,

I also have an AOpen 320 soundcard. The Crystal Semiconductor OS/2
installation program claims that you do not need to deinstall/reinstall
OS/2 multimedia before installing the crystal drivers (read the
"ReadMe.txt" file that comes with the Crystal drivers; I also read it
somewhere else (I can't recall where) but more detailed). The
installation program claims to use undocumented OS/2 techniques to
cleanup OS/2 multimedia and avoid deinstall. It worked for me

Additionally, Mr. KIA claims to have a way to clean up OS/2 multimedia
without requiring a deinstallation (February 2000 Mr.. KIA).

One more thing. Use the "Multimedia Application Install" application to
install the new Crystal drivers. It's in the "System Setup" and
"Install/Remove" folders. There is a bug in the "Multimedia Application
Install" application. You have to place it half way off of your monitor
screen before you press the button to install. If you don't, it will not
work correctly.

HCM
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"J. R. Fox" wrote:
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> This is probably a question best put to Jerry Rash, but I don't
> think he's available.
>
> As part of my system overhaul, I have put in an Aopen AW320,
> which Indelible
> Blue used to sell, and which is based on the Crystal 4614
> chipset. I'm still waiting
> on some advice re the proper way to remove the prior MMOS2
> installation, so I
> have only installed this card under OS/2 in the new (temporary)
> maintenance
> partition, which was a clean install.
>
> The default boot-up music plays with a pronounced waver. Some
> mp3 files play
> too fast, and also with this flutter / waver. At first I thought
> it might have something
> to do with the faster CPU now in the box, but this is not
> happening under W2K.
> That suggests a driver issue. I will check to see if the OS/2
> drivers I loaded are the
> most recent ones available. Otherwise, I would say that this
> sound card does not
> appear to suffer from the noise / gain / hiss type problems
> evident on its predecessor,
> a Soundblaster-32, but it does have the lower volume or volume
> variations that I
> think Timur's old sound site warned could be expected from
> Crystal chipsets.
>
> On a possibly related subject: ever since the system rebuild, my
> subwoofer no
> longer seems to work, and I have no idea why.
>
> Jordan
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