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H E L P   !!!!

Anybody out there got Command &  Conquer running on an IBM DX4-100 ?

I can start a game or load a save game but it'll eventually freeze the
screen and only turning the power off/on will restart the machine. Sound
stops too.

At first I thought it was a mouse problem. But I loaded a new MS mouse
Version 9.0 and that didn't help. I have a Compaq P90 at home and I was able
to fix the mouse problem on the Compaq by loading this Mouse Driver and
it fixed the compaq (PS/2 type mouse on both machines). 


The only way I can play the game is to disable sound all together in the
SETUP.EXE for the game. I have a Sound Blaster Vibra 16 board in the machine
but even if I installed a Proaudio Spectrum 16 in the machine it still
hang with the exact symptom. I borrowed another Vibra 16 and still the
same problem.

Two symptoms that I've noticed on it. The screen freezes, no sound and 
no mouse movement. The 2nd symptom is that the program would crash with
big letters/numbers on the screen and freezes. The latter seldom happens
now. 

I've replaced my memory (16Mb) but didn't fix it either. I've disabled
cache in the machine. I've installed another video adapter. I've even
tried copying the CDROM to a big hard drive and did the CDEMUlator program
thinking that there might be some problem with the CDROM data transfer.
I've stripped down my CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. I've tried runnning
it within MS-WINDOWS. ALL TO NO AVAIL! 

H E L P    !!!

I've sent email to WestWood but nobody replied. I'll try them again later.

Here's my machines configuration:

Intel 486DX-100 w/ 256Kb cache ISA bus
16 MEG memory
PS/2 type mouse
S3 Video resident card
2x CDROM drive,
Sound Blaster Vibra 16 
540 Meg IDE hard drive (I've tried a SCSI drive too)


I've appreciate any suggestions/comments from C&C fans out there!
I've appreciate to hear from any IBM Valuepoint owners too.

Thanks much!

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