| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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Can anyone help me please?
I bought a Decstation 350 (european version based on the Olivetti
machine) and use it successfully you will all be pleased to know for
standard MS-DOS business applications.Configuration includes 4MB
memory, 386SX ,maths co-processor, 80 MB disk, DEPCA, DECmouse,1.44MB
floppy, VGA and standard comms ports.
I also have a Roland D20 and bought a DR T MIDI card with COPYIST and
PRISM and BAND-IN-BOX software with FAKEBOOKS on a deal!
Rub is the midi card does not work. Whatever I try I get FATAL ERROR
ON POWER UP. Have tried all the IRQ options that we know can cause
issues. Dealer sent me another board to try. Same error. Tried the
board on another (AMSTRAD) AT compatible and it worked!!!!
I have escalated this to product marketing as it suggests the DEC PC
is not IBM compatible. Indeed they tell me we claim only that it is
INDUSTRY compatible.
I'm not in to esoterics nor even marketing. All I want is to find a
way to make this work. The dealer is sending me a VOYETRA board to
try but I am curious (IE totally frustrated) cos I want to make
music.
Can anyone help me please please????
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| 2679.1 | Chuck the DEPCA | MALLET::BARKER | Pretty Damn Cosmic | Wed Jul 17 1991 06:37 | 19 |
Ross, My first suspicion would be that you have an IRQ conflict with the DEPCA board. I assume that you aren't actually using Ethernet (unless you have a very advanced home setup:-) so I'd pull it out. You may also find some help available in one of the various PCSA & DOS notesfiles e.g. DECstation PCs Europe SUTRA::EUROPC PC Systems Architecture RANGER::PCSAV2 PC Systems Architecture RANGER::PCSAV1 IBM PC NAC::IBMPC Nigel PS I use a Music Quest PC MIDI card in a VAXmate so am really jealous of your machine (assuming that you eventually get it working) PPS How much was the deal on the DECstation? How much for the MIDI card etc? | |||||
| 2679.2 | works on this end | MAJTOM::ROBERT | Fri Jul 19 1991 13:40 | 21 | |
We have used both CMS MIDI board (supplied with CakeWalk) and the Voyetra board in most of the U.S. line of the DECstations. I have one in my DECstation 316 right now. We got them all to work fine. If you have a DECPA board in it, I would also suggest pulling it out. One reason being that the older boards have the built in mouse-port which uses an additional IRQ of 2, besides the IRQ for the ethernet which I believe is 7. The other thing to check for is the Port Number. In Cakewalk we had to change this several times from the default of 0x330 to 0x3f0. I think this had to do with whether there was an SCSI disk drive or an IDE. I believe the SCSI ones gave us the problem, so that's something else to look for too. I'm not sure what differences there are all-together between the U.S. and European models of the DECstation besides the power supply, or perhaps if there's even a difference in the MIDI cards themselves. But the Voyetra board you're receiving should work. -TR | |||||