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More info?)
If you have done this my apologies for wasting bandwidth... my P4P800Dlx has
a setting in CMOS to activate the MIDI interface and also to change (in a
limited way) its I/O. Have you checked in cmos to see if possibly you could
choose the other I/O to see if that helps?
Good Luck,
Len
"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message
news:nospam-1606040341310001@192.168.1.177...
> In article <cahh62$3t3$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk>, "xyz" <dont@spamme.com>
wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the post - I've installed a Microsoft Windows Publisher
"MPU-401
> > Compatible MIDI Device" driver" but am now faced with a yellow
exclamation
> > mark and the message "This device cannot start. (Code 10). Click
> > Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device." The
> > troubleshooter is unable to solve the problem. There are "no conflicts"
(I
> > take it IRQ-wise), so what isn't it functioning?
>
> This thread states a few ideas, but I don't know if I believe them
> or not.
>
>
http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=57697
>
> I guess if I ran out of things to try, I would enter Device Manager
> and delete the MPU401 device in Safe Mode. Then, reboot, and let
> Windows rediscover the hardware. I don't know enough about code 10,
> based on what I've read so far (like info from Microsoft) to
> even guess at another solution.
>
> Is there anything in Event Viewer, or other logs of that type ?
>
> Google wasn't too helpful.
>
> Paul
>
> >
> > "Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message
> > news:nospam-1206041115520001@192.168.1.177...
> > > In article <cadntv$85s$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>, "xyz" <dont@spamme.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > anybody?
> > > >
> > > > "xyz" <dont@spamme.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:cacbs9$dcu$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > How do I get back my MPU-401 midiport which seems to have gone
after I
> > had
> > > > > to perform an XP repair. It is present in "other devices" in
Device
> > > > Manager,
> > > > > but I need to install it. Where would the driver be?
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers in advance
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > > Well, your Super I/O chip has two serial ports on it, and a
> > > Windows driver is used for that. As I understand it from looking
> > > in Google, Midi is just a serial port on the Super I/O chip as
> > > well. I'm guessing the driver is already in Windows.
> > > Maybe updating the device by looking for a new driver (and
> > > letting the system find a driver in its existing collection)
> > > will work. The device has to be enabled in the BIOS for this to
> > > work, and since you see it in Other Devices, then you should be
> > > able to fix it while in the Device Manager.
> > >
> > > OK, I just enabled the Game/Midi port in the BIOS. I set mine to
> > > 200-300, the two addresses for game and midi respectively. I had
> > > three other choices, and I picked the first one from the list.
> > >
> > > When I rebooted, I didn't even see the New Hardware Wizard show
> > > up, which means maybe the drivers were in there from the old
> > > motherboard.
> > >
> > > The drivers loaded were MSMPU401.sys, PORTCLS.sys, STREAM.sys,
> > > KSUSER.dll, WDMAUD.drv and I/O addresses 300-301 for Midi.
> > > Midi uses IRQ10. For Game port, GAMEENUM.sys is the driver,
> > > and address range is 201-208.
> > >
> > > Judging from the location of the drivers, I'm thinking they
> > > are already in Windows.
> > >
> > > Just a guess,
> > > Paul
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