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by **J Kop** » Sun, 23 May 1999 04:00:00

I have just recently loaded NR99 onto a new system I have built. It
is a Celeron 400, 64 MB ram, Creative Riva TNT AGP w/16 mb, and
SoundBlaster Live. The game runs fine in Win95, but when I try to run
in DOS, My monitor (19" CTX Ultra Screen) displays the following
error message - "Signal Out of Range, 92.5KHz 173+Hz". I also hooked
up my old monitor - and all I saw was garbled colors.

I have tried updated graphics drivers from creative, and also
detonator...all to no avail.

Also, when I run soundset, I select soundblaster, input my settings,
hit test - then I do hear the audio. After the audio plays, the
system locks so that I can't exit and save the settings. It also won't
let me
select the settings and exit without testing.

mention hopefully avoid the crashes/lockups I have been seeing when
running in Win95.

Anyone with any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate the
input/help. I have posted at Tom's Hardware, Sierras Motorsports Forum,

and no one has offered any help.

Please - any suggestions would be a big help - I don't know what to to
anymore.

Thank you

by **Tim Wheatle** » Sun, 23 May 1999 04:00:00

Your monitor is not capable of running at the refresh rate that your 3dfx
card is running at bud, you need to set the 3dfx card lower, my monitor runs
from 60hz to 85hz, my 3dfx card runs from 60hz to 120hz.

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by **Ricky L** » Sun, 23 May 1999 04:00:00

>I have just recently loaded NR99 onto a new system I have built. It
>is a Celeron 400, 64 MB ram, Creative Riva TNT AGP w/16 mb, and
>SoundBlaster Live. The game runs fine in Win95, but when I try to run
>in DOS, My monitor (19" CTX Ultra Screen) displays the following
>error message - "Signal Out of Range, 92.5KHz 173+Hz". I also hooked
>up my old monitor - and all I saw was garbled colors.

>I have tried updated graphics drivers from creative, and also
>detonator...all to no avail.

>Also, when I run soundset, I select soundblaster, input my settings,
>hit test - then I do hear the audio. After the audio plays, the
>system locks so that I can't exit and save the settings. It also won't
>let me
>select the settings and exit without testing.

It sounds like a problem with the refresh rate in dos. Try setting
your refresh rate to adapter default. See if that helps.

As for your soundcard problem, can you do autodetect w/o lockup? I
have SBLive value, and I use sb16 instead of sb. Check to make sure
that SBLive is not sharing IRQ with other devices, like graphics
cards. I've read that SBLive doesn't like sharing irq with other
devices.

Ricky

by **Mortado Fil** » Mon, 24 May 1999 04:00:00

I know your problem is already fixed from your reply on Sierra's
Motorsports board, but thought I'd post the answer here just in case
anyone else is suffering from the same problem-

>I have just recently loaded NR99 onto a new system I have built. It
>is a Celeron 400, 64 MB ram, Creative Riva TNT AGP w/16 mb, and
>SoundBlaster Live. The game runs fine in Win95, but when I try to run
>in DOS, My monitor (19" CTX Ultra Screen) displays the following
>error message - "Signal Out of Range, 92.5KHz 173+Hz". I also hooked
>up my old monitor - and all I saw was garbled colors.

The TNT boards will NOT work with DOS programs like Nr1999 until you
have done two things- configured the sound and removed the
introduction video. You can remove the introduction video by remming
out the smackply line in NR1999.bat.

Not needed

let me guess. Your settings give an IRQ of 2, correct? If you go to
the Device Manager and look at the properties of your computer, you
will probably find that the SB 16 emulation is really on IRQ 9, which
NR1999/N2 can not use. Reassign the resource to 5, 7 or 10 and change
the set blaster line in your autoexec.bat accordingly. You should be
good to go at that point, unless you have another device using the
new IRQ you have selected. I have no idea why the Creative cards do
this, but I have found it to be quite common, on all of their sound
cards ranging from SB 16 to the Lives. Other sound cards do not seem
to experience the "wrong IRQ" phenomenon. Keep in mind this
only happens on some of the cards, not all of them so it is probably
the wonders of "Plug and Pray" interacting with Creative's
drivers causing this.

One the sound has been properly configured and the video has been
disabled you should be good to go.

Cheers,
Chris

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