Help! PnP locks up my system!

[Kenneth W K Kan]

I am trying to install 2 pnp cards, one is a 14.4 modem and the
other is a Soundblaster 32 pnp and both installations can't
get past the ICU pnp driver in the config.sys. The older
driver that came with the modem will keep rebooting and newer
driver (1.43) that came with the Soundblaster will just lock
up. I have a non pnp AMI BIOS system with an AMD 486DX4-100, 8 megs
RAM, 4x Sony CD-ROM, PCI motherboard, PCI VGA card, 2 floppies.
I've tried installing either cards separately and together and still
it locks up, I can't even get to the point where I can run the
manager program to check or reset any DMA, IRQ, etc settings.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!!

[Steve Cho]

hey

kk...@Hawaii.Edu (Kenneth W K Kan) writes:

>I am trying to install 2 pnp cards, one is a 14.4 modem and the
>other is a Soundblaster 32 pnp and both installations can't
>get past the ICU pnp driver in the config.sys. The older

why even intall the pnp drivers? can you not do a manual install?

>it locks up, I can't even get to the point where I can run the
>manager program to check or reset any DMA, IRQ, etc settings.

i've had a lot of problems with installing myself and i can't stand pnp
and win95's automatic driver installation. anyways, after you install the
drivers and crash, boot in safe mode and enter the device manager. click
OFF the Original Configuration (or whatever configurations you have) to
disable the device. Reboot normally. Now re-enter the device manager and
mess with the resource settings manually. i usually have two configs when
i'm trying to fiddle with a device -- one config with the device enabled,
and one disabled -- that way i can do resource editing without having to
drop to safe mode first.

hope that helps.
--steve