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Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:17:43 PDT7
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: sound card driver for thinkpad A22m type 2628 xx8

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butch@fyrelizard.com wrote:
> For the last few weeks I've been trying to get sound on my thinkpad with
> eCS 1.1 installed. I've yet to find what the sound card is in the laptop.
> I've scoured the ibm website and get general indications but no specifics
> as to the sound card. I've learned that the sound card supports Sound
> Blaster 16/Pro, but nothing else. Elsewhere I have learned that there are
> several different sound cards in these thinkpads. I went to the cirrus
> website because someone said the cards are cirrus logic sound cards. I
> downloaded a driver and it worked fine, but after shutting down the system
> and restarting, the boot process gets to the very end where on my system a
> blue screen appears wth the clock icon in the middle and hangs. A forced
> shutdown is required. More times than not this freeze happens, but
> occassionally the boot process is successful in bringing up the system.
> Any ideas?
>

I have had systems freeze when the INI files had not been cleaned in a
long time. Have you run CHECKINI or CLEANINI lately?

You should be able to get a definitive answer as to your sound hardware
from the PCI sniffer. Look for PCI048VKA.zip on hobbes. It's a DOS
program, but it will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about
your hardware!

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Tom Brown
thombrown at san dot rr dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E. & SDAA
running eComStation GA + FP 3
eCS system uptime is 0 days 00:42 hours

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