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Article #48Re: Sound problem in modem play
From: war... warlock
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 17:02
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 17:02
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In article <kkittyD1...@netcom.com> kki...@netcom.com (Kamikaze Kitty) writes: >From: kki...@netcom.com (Kamikaze Kitty) >Subject: Re: Sound problem in modem play >Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 23:33:39 GMT >warlock (war...@cts.com) wrote: >: 1.) >: When I go to the set modem options screen, my sound card begins making a >: rythmic POP POP POP POP POP POP noise. About 1 *POP* per second, no matter >: what I did. We played the game anyway...It made me think of the sound of >: very heavy footseteps, as though I were being stalked. <G> The only way I >: could stop it is was to drop to DOS and send a reset to the card. This is >: the only problem I have had so far. The modem is a Wang 14/14i. The system >: is a i486DX2-66 w/8MB RAM, 256k cache, 1MB VLB SVGA, SB16+WaveBlaster. >: PARRALAX SOFTWARE: Please advise me on this modem problem if possible. Thanks >This is a sound card/com2 conflict... I had the same problem, a standard SB on >irq 7 and a modem on com1. The default is Com2 for descent. so when I selected >multi-player modem it checked com2, which the soundcard didn't like. I set com >settings to com1 and when I restarted the game it wouldn't check com2... so it >sounds all nice now... >: warlock >-- >-- > ____________________ > Kamikaze Kitty |o o| "He's probably one of those > Los Angeles, CA | Discovery Dragon | people that thinks Elvis > kki...@netcom.com | -==(UDIC)==- _| is dead" > |__________________|/ -Fox Mulder _The X-Files_ > I sincerely hope that this is not the problem.....The modem is set to COM 4, IRQ 3. The sound card is set at address 240, IRQ 5. warlock
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Newsgroups: alt.games.descent Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!crash!prtc.cts.com!warlock From: war...@cts.com (warlock) Subject: Re: Sound problem in modem play Organization: PRTC Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 17:02:33 GMT Message-ID: <warlock.131.2F0AD4A8@cts.com> X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B] References: <warlock.127.2F07BA4E@cts.com> <kkittyD1sxG4.J1I@netcom.com> Sender: ne...@crash.cts.com (news subsystem) Nntp-Posting-Host: prtc.cts.com Lines: 38 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit