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Re: Descent, Gravis Ultrasound, and random lockups!!!

#204
From: dam... Damian Frank
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 11:09
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Anssi Saari (s10...@cc.tut.fi) wrote:
: In <djamison.3...@students.wisc.edu> djam...@students.wisc.edu (Shadow Weaver) writes:

: :>Someone mailed me that the GUS Max (and GUS?) have to have a 8Mhz bus speed 
: :>or something. Mines in a Vesa slot at the moment, mainly because its too 
: :>large to fit into any of my ISA slots. Might this be the reason im having 
: :>lockup problems when I turn on the music? 

: No, it's not in a VESA slot, because it's an ISA card. I noticed that I don't
: get sound effects from my GUS if the bus speed is above 8MHz. It is a 
: software problem, not a GUS problem that some games fail at this while others
: don't mind if the bus speed is 16MHz or more.

Actually, you CAN plug ISA cards into VESA slots.  I don't know HOW this
affects the bus speed, though.  I DO know that it works.  In situations like
this, the only thing you CAN do is just mess with it and see what
works...try reducing your bus speed, ytry moving it...whatever.

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Damian Frank      "Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and
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                   You cannot shirk this and be a man."   -Mark Twain
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Subject: Re: Descent, Gravis Ultrasound, and random lockups!!!
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Date: 7 Jan 1995 11:09:21 GMT
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