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From: dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster hates Bus Mouse
Message-ID: <15090010@hpspcoi.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Aug 90 23:06:48 GMT
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> 've just spent several hours trying to debug a strange failure on my new
>PC, and I haven't gotten anywhere, so I'm appealing to the collective wisdom
>of the net.  Here goes...
>
>The Hardware:
>A generic 386 AT Clone, 25 MHz, 4MB RAM
>85 MB SCSI Drive with an ST02 controller, two floppies (1.2MB and 1.44MB).
>Generic (AD-450) I/O board, with 2 Serial, 1 Parallel, 1 Game Port.
>Microsoft Bus Mouse
>Sound Blaster sound card

Here's another possibility. CMS has found that the Sound Blaster has 
DMA conflicts with some SCSI controllers. The SB uses a DMA channel
for the voice channel. Check the DMA channel usage on your system.

			   Danny Low
    "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
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