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General MIDI under Windows 98 DOS mode using Audigy or Live!

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Damn, what a title. Anyway, I'm having trouble with General Midi using any combination of Live! or Audigy PCI cards on a system. The specs follow.

1024MB of SDRAM
Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Tualatin 1400
Voodoo 2
Asus TUV4X

I can get everything /except/ Midi to work. That is, SB16 emulation for digital sound works just fine- but as soon as the Imuse program from Dark Forces tries to select a midi port (any port, 300,310,320,330)- it freezes. This also happens within a Windows Dosbox.

So, any idea what's up or what to try? It's such a bizzare issue and the only problem with this system. I tried doing it without any addon cards- could the video card itself effect this somehow? Is there some asinine BIOS option?

Reply 1 of 1, by SRQ

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I figured out I can make it work by setting the FSB to 66Mhz, which is weird- but hey whatever works.
Is there any way to automatically set the FSB from DOS so I can add it to the autoexec for dos mode? Would be hella more conveniant than the BIOS.

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