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Joseph M. Kempf:
Thanks again for your time gentlemen.

The uniaud-readme text provides troubleshooting instructions. 

LBMix gives an error message
--- Quote ---Mixer API Initialization failed
--- End quote ---
  Recall unimix.exe didn't quite work either.  Uniaud32 /V at boot up provides the following information:

--- Quote ---HD - Audio generic at 0xfeb44000 irq 18
Detected Mixer: ATI ID aa01
--- End quote ---
Hardware manager indicates two IRQs are assigned to one of the sound-chips (the 2nd).  The first sound-chip has no IRQ assigned.  Since the on-board USB controllers and the NIC also are assigned non-exclusive use of IRQ 18 I wonder whether there is an IRQ conflict.  The on-board NIC and USB controllers work but not the audio.  I'm going to check an eCS v2.1 installation where audio works but not a similar on-board NIC.  I may try to reset the IRQ but I'll read the ACPI help files first.    As I suspect this may be a hardware issue I'll swap out the beta UNIAUD36 v2.02.01 drivers for the stable older 1.0.21 version if and when other options fail.

I'm thinking that IRQ 12 or 15 might be good choices?


Thanks

Joe

Dave Yeo:
In my limited experience the network card seems to fail first from IRQ conflicts. Previous box where my nic card worked for less then a minute was solved by moving the card to a different slot which gave it a different IRQ.
My current box and Warp 4, to get the builtin networking to work, I have to disable sound and the PATA (DVD) controller, otherwise I have sound and access to the DVD drive but no networking.
ECS 2.1 is better but sometimes after booting up the network only receives. Usually an power off reboot fixes it but sometimes it takes a couple of reboots and eventually it will stop working with the record being 2 weeks before it failed.
On my system there doesn't seem to be a way to change IRQs for the builtin stuff either.
With ACPI, there doesn't seem to be access to the low IRQs unless you use the /VW switch in which case you lose the high IRQs.

Simplest is to experiment, go into the BIOS and disable everything you can besides sound while still being able to boot and test. You can also disable drivers in config.sys but I find it easier and more sure to just disable in the BIOS and hit return during boot when a driver can't be loaded.

Joseph M. Kempf:
I've had similar experiences with network cards, Dave.  It seems odd when Firefox, Opera and Slpr return error messages in eCS v2.0 or v2.1 and yet  browsers work in Windows XP running as guest in VPC in the same eCS v2.0 or v2.1 host.

I'll find time this week or next to read more of the ACPI help resource.  I want to give the eCS v2.2 and Uniaud32 v2.02.01 betas a thorough tryout. Going through the motherboard manuals and reconsidering jumper and bios options seems a good idea.  It is good to have the on-board NIC work and to know that new NIC drivers work with newer network devices.  Managing IRQs has always been tricky and I have used and unused old PCI OS/2 sound cards on hand  as a backup resource.

Thanks again all.  I'll report on my progress.

Joe

mickhead:
Greetings:

How on installed 2.2 system are we shut off PNG icons?

Some person said to make the default size to normal yet see no affects.

Doug Bissett:

--- Quote from: Mick Head on July 16, 2014, 02:23:38 am ---Greetings:

How on installed 2.2 system are we shut off PNG icons?

Some person said to make the default size to normal yet see no affects.
--- End quote ---

On a blank spot on the desktop, right mouse click. At the bottom to the menu, there is "Display". Expand that by clicking on the arrow. The top entry is "Default", which will be selected. Click that, and it will be deselected. Now, you can select "Normal", and the PNG icons will be off. To turn them back on, select "Default".

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