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Date:	Mon, 13 May 2002 10:04:22 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Sound card falls short under OS/2

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Harry wrote:

> I also have an AOpen 320 soundcard.

How do you like it ? (And compared to other soundcards you may have
tried.)

> The Crystal Semiconductor OS/2
> installation program claims that you do not need to deinstall/reinstall
> OS/2 multimedia before installing the crystal drivers

> The installation program claims to use undocumented OS/2 techniques to

> cleanup OS/2 multimedia and avoid deinstall. It worked for me

Good for them ! That will be a whole lot more convenient.

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

Steven mentioned this past article. I've now printed it out for later reference.

> 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.

Thanks for your help.

Svobi was kind enough to send me a rev. of these drivers that I had not seen
before. They appear to be a couple years later vintage than the ones I had
installed with poor results. If they improve the situation, I'll report that here.
I certainly hope they do, as I'm not that enthusiastic about returning to use of
the SB-32, esp. since I now have just one ISA slot (already occupied) instead
of two.

I have a hardware question in this regard. Those cheap Aopen folks don't bother
to provide a real manual, not even as a downloadable file. What they give us
instead is some very skimpy HTML thing. It states that if you want legacy SB
support (e.g., for DOS games), you need to connect a "PC/PCI sideband cable"
(items # 10 & 11 on the diagram) between the soundcard and the motherboard.
I know about the audio cable you need to connect between the soundcard and
the CD-Rom, but not what other cable they are talking about here. More to the
point, I find nothing on the schematics for my Asus main board indicating where
such a connection might be made.

Jordan

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