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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: More info about my sound card problems.
To: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 10:27:39 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199505251508.LAA02895@lakes> from "Thomas David Rivers" at May 25, 95 11:08:38 am
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> 
> 
> OK - I've finally gotten some information from MediaMagic
> regarding my sound card woes.
> 
> 1) They will not tell me the phone number of the "chip manufacturer"
> 
> 2) The "chip manufacturer" apparently will not call me back with programming
>    information.
> 
> 3) The "chip manufacturer" is OPTi (I had to beg and plead to get that much.)
> 
> 4) The IRQ settings, etc... are stored on an ASIC on the card, not in 
>    NVRAM.  So, a hard boot restores the default configuration.  If you
>    want a different configuration; you have to program the chip.  (The
>    tech. support guy indicated they weren't too happy with this situation,
>    and several others, but OPTi wasn't about to change this.)
> 
> 
> So - at this point I'd like to ask the group:
> 
> 	1) Does anyone have OPTi's phone number, so I can call them
> 	   directly.

Not a number to a person, but maybe there is a number for a person
on this (thanks to phk for getting this for me!!):
Opti BBS                (408) 980 9774


> 	2) Are other sound cards that have this phenomena, if so,
>            what to people do about the printer wanting to use IRQ 7.
> 
> 
> 	  - Thanks -
> 	- Dave Rivers -
> 
> 


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