Author: Jim Bates
Date: 19:02:35 01/09/01
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On January 09, 2001 at 15:04:36, John Merlino wrote: >Is this device a Win2K option, or one that is directly related to either your >sound card or your motherboard? This appears to be a Win2k option. I wish I could claim to have discovered the solution myself, but someone else discovered this solution and posted it to r.g.c.c. This isn't an app (like other programs that might take over the audio) but rather appears to be an integral part of Win2k and is a audio device driver that seems to confuse CM8k. It doesn't appear to be actively used (I once heard that it was some option to use your modem as an answering phone, but I really don't know) and have noticed no problems having disabled it. >Several users who have reported your problem >have gotten around it by shutting down or disabling audio software that was >"taking control" of the sound card and preventing Chessmaster from initializing >audio. The behavior was identical to that described by this problem, but the solution was very different and seems to have worked for Win2k users with very different configurations. >The development team knows about the login bug, but it's still on the back >burner. Hopefully, it will get in for the patch. Not a big deal. >jm Thanks for participating in this forum. It's nice to see active participation.
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