Re: Help to clear old audio card conflict please

Hi Mike

Mike Luther wrote:
It looks like I have a conflict in a backup mirror box with what changes I had to make with the audio card to create a bail out system for emergency purposes if needed. What did I do wrong and how do I fix it?

The old box had an AWE32 Sound Blaster audio card in it with Mixomat. That works fine with the old card and the SBAWED2.SYS in a complete passive backplane Single Board CPU card system. The bail out clone had to be moved to an Intel 915GAVL motherboard which has no conventional ISA slots. Thus the need to move to a PCI audio card. I have an exact same Intel 915GAVL system with an SBLive 5.1 card operation working fine with all but the latest Uniaud RC3 audio setup unit. And interestingly, in the OS/2 Multimedia Setup object, there are only one set of audio tabs in it with the each item using the 'default' Uniaud reported interface for each tab in this fine working box.

Now the exact same setup as to PCI slot use, IRQ use, comm driver use, mouse use, everything inluding the entire NIC and other hardware setup for this 'clone' box is in use in another completely different working box for other uses here. But no matter what I do I cannot get any audio out of the exact same SBLive 5.1 card model for model .. everything, in this problem box!

Curiously, if I go into the OS/2 Multimedia Setup object, on the box that does not work, I can see two sets of tabs for objects such as the CD-ROM, MIDI and other things! One is for the 'default' audio device, I think, and the second one is for the Uniaud audio device. But there is only one audio card in this box, and even the motherboard hardware setup has the on-board Intel audio chipset disabled .. in that even the latest RC3 Uniaud release can't connect the audio from this Intel on-board chip through the desktop volume control, nor any mixer, as I'm hopeful will someday be fixed.

OK .. my guess is that somehow the OS/2 system in the non-working box still thinks that the default audio device which was the old AWE32 card is in there, but .. it isn't. And the 'second' device, the Uniaud detected SBLIve 5.1 card is there but it really isn't the 'second' device. The latest SYSINFO 8.25 correctly finds the system tree to the SBLive 5.1 card, exact same IRQ, same address, same port, everything! And using PCI for sniffing, I get exactly the same port definitions, IRQ definitions, device ID's everything as in the Intel 915GAVL system that has fine audio from all this in the log file!

OK .. as far as I can remember, I did exactly what I thought needed for this work. I went in and UNINSTALLED the original audio setup with the MINSTALL operation setting things to a zero(0) level of whatever for drivers. That did REM out the device drivers for the old AWE32 card operation in CONFIG.SYS as expected. Thus I didn't just go in and REM them out. Then, I went in and installed the for sure known working Uniaud 1.0.9 package that I knew worked fine with the other Intel system. No audio.

I've repeatedly gone in and done a MINSTALL for zero devices, watched the CONFIG.SYS get properly changed after a zero unit install, then installed onely ONE card each for both drivers as is normal. No audio.

I've done each step of an install to get an exact match for device drivers, mixers, PMMixer, whatever and .. No audio.

Nothing I can do will get a peep out of any audio I can see here on this box.

Obviously something is different between the bad box and the working one. The Multimedia Setup object still has those two audio pathways in it compared to one the one 'default' operation in the working box.

What can I do to fix this? Thanks!






Reading the above I wonder if the \mmos2\mmpm2.ini contains references to the uninstalled driver/hardware. That would cause similar problems to the above.

I suggest a read through the file using (a)e.exe or other editor and correct if necessary.


Come to think of it some of the later uniaud packages come with a "virgin" mmpm2.ini file - possibly to avoid the above problem.

Regards

Pete
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