
We have found that the DECtalk PC2 will not work with PCs that have 
certain EIDE CDROMs intalled.

Some of the CDROMs are manufactured by ACER and Mitsumi and one of the 
driver names in CONFIG.SYS is VIDE_CDD.

The problem apparently is caused by the DECtalk and CDROM drivers trying 
to use the same software interrupt (different than hardware IRQs).

A small program called HOLD2F.SYS is available which should resolve the 
problem.

The procedure for using this program is as follows:

1. Change to the root directory, e.g. C:\, and edit the CONFIG.SYS file. Add 
the following line at the top of the file:

	DEVICE=C:\DECTALK_DIR\HOLD2F.SYS

The "C:\DECTALK_DIR" part of the command line should be the disk drive name 
and directory path to your DECtalk subdirectory. For example for the 
default DECtalk PC2 the line would be:   

	DEVICE=C:\DECTALK2\HOLD2F.SYS

2. After the line is added, save the change to the CONFIG.SYS file.

3. Reboot the system. 

The DECtalk should now be working.      

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