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Re: Sound problem in modem play

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From: war... warlock
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

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>    

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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