Reply 800 of 894, by root42
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- l33t
I just got shocked: my 386 wouldn't play any MT32 sounds anymore. Monkey Island 2 would say: "couldn't initialize sound system", mqdiag would say that it had seen the card, but couldn't determine the IRQ. So I tried forcing IRQ2-- no luck. I switched to IRQ3-- no luck.
I pulled out the card, inspected it visually. Re-seated the GAL, because I think it is determining the IRQ...? No luck... Nothing I would try would work. Until, finally...
I pulled off the jumper for the port address. It was pretty loose fitting. And voila: the card is detected on port 300h! I borrowed a jumper from a TVGA9000 to get the card back to 330h -- and it still works!
Sometimes the little things fail... Why? I have no clue, I never changed the port setting. Maybe it was a flaky jumper and it finally gave up making good contact.
Glad that the card is back in working order!