Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/21/22:43:26
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:
Oh have I got an idea for an invention, just wish I had $$ to do it, a
voiceCGA card which plugs into a computer and provides a voice to the boot
process. Allow someone to hear their computer's setting and adjust as
needed to make the computer run properly. Designed properly, it would
emulate a text screen and maybe even those fancy graphics screens as long
as there was recognizable words on there.
> I've got a slightly different situation over here. I'm using a legacy
> 386 and have used insmell's icu and cassist and creative flab's ctcu
> software. I had everything working before my memory doubled from 4 megs
> to 8 megs. After that, my dual 20mb bernoulli drives started using irq
> 5 even though they're set for pio rather than dma. Naturally the
> silence blaster is fighting with the bernoulli drive and both are
> loosing that fight. The thing is, all of the soundblaster settings
> moved after that memory upgrade. Because of the gui interface both
> bernoulli and soundblaster are useless until I can get sighted help to
> fix this situation or at least try a few experiments and debug this
> mess. Have to remember to have the installer bring the system up all
> the way and verify everything works before they leave.
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