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Important Hints to the Marc 8 Midi driver version 2.13 for Windows NT 4.0
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1. System Requirements
2. Installation
3. What's new
4. Attention: Windows System Sounds
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1. System Requirements
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* Windows NT 4.0 Build 1381 (Service Pack 3)
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2. Installation
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* Ensure that you are logged on with administrator rights at Windows NT
* Change to the language directory of the driver disk, acknowledge this directory
and choose a driver version from the subsequent appearing list.
* After the installation the Marc 8 Midi Sound System is ready to operate.
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3. What's new
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Version 2.13:
Version 2.12
Version 2.10
* Some Users told us about the driver message "Card memory check failed" on Windows Start.
(most of them are AMD-Users). This problem was caused by an incompatibility between the
PnP BIOS and the Siena PCI Controller. In consequence the audio data couldn't read/write
from/to the Siena RAM.
This driver version is able to walk around this problem but at cost of the IRQ sharing.
Therefore you may get the error message "IRQ could not be occupied" or another system
component which uses the same IRQ like the Siena will not work.
In this case change the IRQ of the Siena to another value which is not used by another
system component. Do this by using the PnP BIOS.
Version 2.08:
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4. Attention: Windows System Sounds
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* Per default the driver takes care of a synchron start and stop of all
analog devices of the Marc 8 Midi. This is a really important feature for
each multichannel harddiskrecording program but it may cause conflicts
with the windows system sounds.
If a running playback- or recording session will be interrupted by
a system sound (because of a message box or window actions) the
playback- or recording session will STOP too and the related audio
application will hang (under specially circumstances) in a undefined state .
You can solve this behavior by switching off the system sounds
(Control Panel->System Sounds) or by deactivating the Start/Stop
Synchronization Option of the Marc 8 Midi driver.
(Taskbar->Marc 8 Midi Icon Doubleclick->Settings) .
Leipzig 01-17-02