[mswindowsxp] Re: Windows StartUp Music.
- From: "Serdar Yegulalp" <thegline@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mswindowsxp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:48:30 -0500
I know that in my own machine, there's a BIOS flag to control whether or =
not
the floppy drive gets its own IRQ. I have this toggled off, since I use =
the
floppy drive so little, and my sound is actually provided by an outboard =
USB
device.
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> From: mswindowsxp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20
> [mailto:mswindowsxp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Parker
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 12:15 AM
> To: mswindowsxp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mswindowsxp] Re: Windows StartUp Music.
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> Yikes! We left all that IRQ nonsense behind us with Win9x. In=20
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> Windows compliant now, all hardware and software must share=20
> IRQs nicely. WHEW!
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> If we can assume that _no_ sound works, then I'd say somebody=20
> bumped a wire=20
> or plug while messing with the floppy cable. If only the=20
> startup or system=20
> sounds aren't working then I dunno.
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> At 09:50 PM 1/16/2004, you wrote:
> >It sounds like the floopy drive's IRQ is being shared with=20
> the sound card?
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> > > a blemish. However, I discovered this morning that my floppy
> > > drive was not working and found that the connecting lead was
> > > too short and not allowing a plug to seat correctly.
> > > Replacing with a longer lead fixed this, but stuffed up my
> > > start-music again!
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