Hi, The problem with the Keynote SA is the firmware drivers that came with the unit. The way Windows 2000/XP/Vista communicates with hardware devices is completely different from the way Windows 95/98 did it. Windows 95/98 gave a driver programmer unrestricted access to hardware devices which was really bad news if you had a lot of devices installed on a system. With 2000 and beyond devices must go through the Windows hardware access layer, HAL, which allows Windows to manage the access levels to any given device and cut down on hardware conflicts. If you installed the drivers that came with the SA that is why XP blew up. The Windows 9x era drivers are totally uncompatible with XP and its hardware access layer. That is one reason most older hardware synthesizers won't work under XP. The second is com ports and ISA bus slots are no longer available on most newer PCs. Anyway, we are really getting off topic here. Let us try and begin getting things back to gaming. Smile.
shaun everiss wrote: > aah. > I remember trying a sa on xp just for laughs, this worked. > I did the same with a dectalk, but was not successfull so much, at least in > hal I was not jaws was ok, in hal the synth behaved weirdly, causing a nice > crash within the system, on reboot I got hardware error and had to reformat > to get windows to work, I tried and got the same error 6 times and > reformatted 6 times. > I never found out what happened but I suspect that I must have tried to > directly acess a port that windows used or had vertual access on or something. > though why it wiped windows to that state I have no clue. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
