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System freezes when CD Audio Device accessed.
Name: Guy Lawrence Date: December 15, 1998 at 21:03:00 Pacific
Comment:
I'm running W-98 on an AMD K6-2 350 with a VideoLogic GrafixStar 450 video card (S3 Virge DX[375] chipset) and an A3D (AU8820) Sound card. Everything works great until I try to play music CDs with the CDPLAYER.exe program or the player software that came with the sound card, as soon as I access the player the system completely freezes. I've gone through the Help programs on both W-98 and at the Microsoft site to no avail. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
Name: Guy Date: December 16, 1998 at 10:27:47 Pacific
Reply:
I've fixed the problem. If anyone is having a simular problem turn off the DMA within the Device Manager of the CD ROM.
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Response Number 2
Name: Bdam Date: December 16, 1998 at 12:18:13 Pacific
Reply:
I recently experienced a similar problem after loading an Iomega internal ZIP ATAPI device. For some reason, adding a REM statement in front of the CD driver statements in autoexec.bat and config.sys got the device working. It didn't solve all my problems, but the CD player is working again. Any advice on the ZIP IDE atapi's would be appreciated.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dan Vespa Date: January 2, 2000 at 12:06:30 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you so much for the posting you put on this site. I have been having this problem on my brothers machine for sometime and was unable to find a resolution for it. Everything works fine now!!!
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