On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 09:53:03AM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <20000119091814.A23488@gnyf.wheel.dk>, "Soren S. Jorvang" writes:
> >On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:20:04PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> >> Why does the CD stop on a -current i386 machine?  It'll start playing, and
> >> then, after maybe 10-15 minutes, it'll stop.  I'm pretty sure it didn't do
> >> this previously.  System is running off line power, if that matters.
> 
> >Could be the audio chip (and thus mixer) going into powersave mode.
> 
> >What sort of audio does it have?
> 
> NeoMagic 256AV (2200), emulating a soundblaster.

You might try seeing if the BIOS menus or a platform-specfic Windows
utility has an option for turning off the audio device's powersaving.


-- 
Soren