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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: QEMM and DMA
Message-ID: <5622@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 91 18:58:42 GMT
References: <91044.124402JJLUCSY@MTUS5.BITNET>
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In article <91044.124402JJLUCSY@MTUS5.BITNET> JJLUCSY@MTUS5.BITNET writes:
<Alright, here's the problem. I have a Soundblaster and Desqview/QEMM 5.11. When
<running under DV and running SB software, QEMM gets an exception and says to up
<my DMA. Ok, I upped it 64k and no more problem with the DMA, except that now
<graphical games won't run(like Solitare and the like). Take out the DMA buffer,
<graphical stuffs ok, but then the Soundblaster coughs up blood. What is wrong
<here? To me they shouldn't have anything to do with each other. BTW, I have a
<386sx, 2mb, phoenix bios. Does anybody have any ideas? Makes things Really
<annoying! Thanks in advance.

I also have a 386sx (6MB) and QEMM with a SoundBlaster and piles of other
Interesting Stuff installed.  No such problems with DMA, except with a 
certain SSI game (Secret of the Silver Blades).

What IRQ did you configure the card for?  I had to change from the default
setup to IRQ5 (I think) to prevent hardware conflicts.

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