First post, by AppleSauce
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Hey anyone willing to help ,
So I'm in a bit of a pickle.
I've run into snag with my MS-DOS PC that was running beautifully up until I ran into a really strange problem.
Here's some idea of the system specs:
OS : MS-DOS 6.22 with Windows 3.11 installed on top
Motherboard: MS-5148
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX @ 233 MHZ
GPU: ELSA Winner 1000 T2D 2 (S3 Trio64V2 DX)
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Pro 2 CT1600
Ram Amount: 32MB Single SDRAM stick
Additional Expansion: MIF-IPC-B Clone card connected to real MPU-401 , with that connected to a Roland MT-32 Old
Hard Drive: 10 GB mechanical of some sort (I think)
CD Rom Drive: Sony CDU of some sort
Floppy 1: 1.44mb 3 1/2" of some sort
Floppy 2: 360kb Teac 5 1/4"
So here's the story:
I was playing Legend of Kyrandia Book 1 for pretty decent amount of time ,
with an MT-32 playing the music , CD-ROM doing the voice acting and the Sound Blaster taking care the sound effects.
I was at a point in the game where the main character was talking with a side character and all of a sudden the sound cut off at once.
Which was really jarring since the game was still running and the characters where moving their mouths and whatnot but there was no sound whatsoever.
Naturally I thought the game bugged out and rebooted.
I quickly went into Duke Nukem 3D's setup to do a quick sound check.
Strangely the setup program told me there was a DMA conflict and the sound wouldn't play.
So I went into the SBPRO Diagnose Utility and it told me it couldn't detect the DMA.
So fearing the worst I turned off my pc and pulled out the SbPro2 and inspected it but there was nothing obvious.
So I decided to disconnect the MIF-IPC , take it out , remove the CMOS battery and to then install another sound card.
I put in a Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 and tried to test that but I still got DMA conflicts in the Duke3D setup.
Finally I went into the SB16's Diagnose utility and it somehow detected everything , but when I went play the test sounds nothing came out.
I've tried different ISA slots to no avail.
Also mysteriously just like the sound card the Motherboard doesn't have anything obvious on it (popped caps etc.).
So yeah that's the story ,
if anyone can clue me into what the hell is going on such as:
bad Ram , bad CPU , bad caps , a weird conflict out of the blue or maybe something even worse ,
feel free to let me know cause this is a pretty nice rig that I put a lot of work into
and I'd be pretty sad if it turned out the motherboard was irreparable.
