Installing a PCI card in a windows NT system
Has anyone hear ever tried installing a creative labs 3D Blaster Banshee
16 meg PCI card in a windows NT system?? I am trying right now and It
just will not work for me any pointers??
phantonwerwolf (2) on 06/29/99 at 02:06:15 PDT
I have a few suggestions, but I don't have NT. (except on an old
laptop) 1) when you boot the system and before its says starting DOS, it
should show what devices etc. are being run, like your mouse, and sound
card. 2) check your autoexec.bat and config.sys files to see if the
device driver for the sound card is listed. I have a command in my
autoexec that tells the system were to find the .exe file for the sound
card. The config file should have a device driver for the sound CD-ROM.
This presumes that you installed to sound software? Hopefully in its own
directory. For instance on my c: drive I have a dir> c:\a2sound with all
the sound files in it. From the DOS prompt (not windows) try typing
mem/p/c (memory by page long form) and see if your sound exe is running.
It should show everything that the system is busy running like your mouse
and DOS etc. (However don't worry if this doesn't work my sound exe
doesn't show up but its working) 3)Try the DOS command MSD and see if
you have an IRQ conflict. 4) Try running a simple DOS program with sound
(in DOS) and see if it works there. 5) Go to windows control panel and
see if your sound device is installed. Also somewhere in windows you
enable sound events I have to look to remember. Hope some of this helps.
werwolf
One more idea; Take a look in your sound file directory and see if you
have a config.exe file for configuring the sound card and testing it.
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