Since I have access to you computer...

 Posted on 12/16/1992 by STRACZYNSKI [Joe] to GENIE


Since I have access to you computer whizs (whizes? whizzes? whizi?), let
me pose a question.

For my sound card, I have the Media Visions Thunderboard for Windows.
Now, it works fine on such DOS programs as "Carmen San Diego" (though a
couple it seems to have a problem with). But when I try to use it in Windows
(for which after all it was intended), nothing happens. It hums for a second,
but that's all. For instance, when I run After Dark, it clicks for a second,
but nothing comes out.

I moved the system.ini interrupt for the driver to 2 from 9, but that
doesn't seem to work either. I installed the driver, but that doesn't work.
I tried to run a sound program off a floppy (the pro demo that comes with the
card) and the first time, it worked. The second time, I got two error
messages; the first said "selected MIDI out port is not available or is in use
by another application." The MIDI in port also got the same message. When I
then used the MIDI setup on the floppy, it said "General protection fault in
module timemidi.dll." And the thing crashed.

I went through system.ini and the only thing I could find that looked
like a midi port control was MIDI=msadlib.drv, which I deleted, and tried
again. Same result.

Any suggestions?

jms