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can't get dma to stay checked for cd rom
Name: chad guidry Date: June 26, 1999 at 08:13:45 Pacific
Comment:
i just bought a creative labs 48x cd rom the manual says to enable dma,but i'll check the box,then restart my computer,and the box will be un checked again.any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks,Chad
Name: W. Mostert Date: September 5, 2000 at 05:15:13 Pacific
Reply:
Do you have a soundcard with DOS drivers installed? I had the same problem with a Soundblaster Live Card. I have disabled the SB16 emulation hardware and there came 2 dma channels free (1 and 5). I checked the box for CD-ROM player and whoala, it works finally works.
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