Intel Configuration Manager?
Richard Guarino
computer. Everything is fine in Win 95 (imagine that...) but I
am having problems playing music in my DOS games.
I tried to install the DOS drivers that came with the card but
the install program told me that I needed to run the Intel
Configuration Manager first. I've never even heard of this!
Does anyone have any idea what this is/does/can be found?
thanks,
Rich
Double-O Seven of RVS REVCOR
If you bought the version that came with 3 1/2" installation disks, there
should be a set called "Plug and Play Configuration Manager" (2 disks).
You should install those disks first.
If you have the CD-ROM version, I'd imagine the program is somewhere on
it as well.
Nelson
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Christopher Wein
Double-O Seven of RVS REVCOR <rvs...@io.org> wrote:
>In article <4adl7j$2...@buffnet2.buffnet.net>,
>Richard Guarino <syca...@buffnet.net> wrote:
>>I recently installed a SB32AWE PnP in my Pentium 120 PnP
>>computer. Everything is fine in Win 95 (imagine that...) but I
>>am having problems playing music in my DOS games.
>>
>>I tried to install the DOS drivers that came with the card but
>>the install program told me that I needed to run the Intel
>>Configuration Manager first. I've never even heard of this!
>>
>>Does anyone have any idea what this is/does/can be found?
>
>should be a set called "Plug and Play Configuration Manager" (2 disks).
>You should install those disks first.
>
>If you have the CD-ROM version, I'd imagine the program is somewhere on
>it as well.
Yup, I had the same problem. There are disk images in the win31/sb16
directory - you have to run win31/sb16/disk1/install.exe.
Chris
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Jody Low
> >If you have the CD-ROM version, I'd imagine the program is somewhere on
> >it as well.
>
> Yup, I had the same problem. There are disk images in the win31/sb16
> directory - you have to run win31/sb16/disk1/install.exe.
Uh, regarding Intel Configuration Mgr. Don't install it or the DOS
support drivers if you are running Win95. I did it...musta been a bug,
the install took 2 hours in DOS, my hard drive rattling like a tin
can...what apparently happens during the DOS install is that the program
is not smart and tries to install the Win 3.1 drivers into Win95 from DOS.
Maybe I'm missing something. However, I haven't had any trouble playing
DOS games in Win95 and the sound support works fine with only the
environment variables present in Autoexec.bat, with no other drivers.
Win95 provides the driver support for Real mode games.
Anyone else had the same experience?
Daron Myrick
On your first line in autoexec.bat type C:\WINDOWS\CTPNP.EXE and the Win95 drivers that you installed for
your AWE32 will take care of PNP initialization of your soundcard for you, making the Intel Config Manager
and all DOS programs useless for Win95.
ianp...@connect.reach.net
>>I recently installed a SB32AWE PnP in my Pentium 120 PnP
>>computer. Everything is fine in Win 95 (imagine that...) but I
>>am having problems playing music in my DOS games.
>>
>>I tried to install the DOS drivers that came with the card but
>>the install program told me that I needed to run the Intel
>>Configuration Manager first. I've never even heard of this!
>
>should be a set called "Plug and Play Configuration Manager" (2 disks).
>You should install those disks first.
I just bought a SB32 PnP. I have a PnP BIOS. I don't have
Windows, or Win95.
The hardware installation went fine, except for one thing: when my
computer boots up, it pauses for more than a minute at the BIOS PnP
notification (the part where my BIOS tells me it supports PnP).
I tried installing the PnP Configuration Manager. When it got to the end (a
_long_ time later... I suggest you copy the two disks to two directories on
your hard drive before you install this... maybe even load SMARTDRV), it
tried to run the CASSIST.EXE program (in the \PLUGPLAY\ICU directory). I
got an error: "Cannot run on a PnP ready system" (or similar).
I tried rebooting, and after another minute-long pause, the driver that was
added to my config.sys file was loaded. I got another error:
"Cannot find NVS. Error #FFFFFFFF" (or similar).
I tried running the \PLUGPLAY\ICU\ICU.EXE program, and got a "general"
error. I'm sure it's connected to the failed driver because if I remove the
driver completely, I get an error saying that the driver has to be loaded.
I know the card is installed properly, and I know it works, because it
works beautifully with the beta OS/2 PnP drivers. It even works fine with
DOS programs running under OS/2. But I can't use the card at all in plain
DOS.
So, I can't install any of the SB32 software, or even use the card under DOS.
And, I have a minute-long pause during each reboot. Anyone else have these
problems?
l8r.
// Ian Prest
// ianp...@connect.reach.net
Daron Myrick
|computer boots up, it pauses for more than a minute at the BIOS PnP
|notification (the part where my BIOS tells me it supports PnP).
Are you trying to load the PNP driver into high memory?
If so then I'm suprised it's not hanging since it hangs mine no matter where I try to load it in high memory
though it works immediatly in low memory.
Double-O Seven of RVS REVCOR
<ianp...@connect.reach.net> wrote:
>
>I just bought a SB32 PnP. I have a PnP BIOS. I don't have
>Windows, or Win95.
>
>computer boots up, it pauses for more than a minute at the BIOS PnP
>notification (the part where my BIOS tells me it supports PnP).
>
>_long_ time later... I suggest you copy the two disks to two directories on
>your hard drive before you install this... maybe even load SMARTDRV), it
>tried to run the CASSIST.EXE program (in the \PLUGPLAY\ICU directory). I
>got an error: "Cannot run on a PnP ready system" (or similar).
>
>I tried rebooting, and after another minute-long pause, the driver that was
>added to my config.sys file was loaded. I got another error:
>"Cannot find NVS. Error #FFFFFFFF" (or similar).
>
>I tried running the \PLUGPLAY\ICU\ICU.EXE program, and got a "general"
>error. I'm sure it's connected to the failed driver because if I remove the
>driver completely, I get an error saying that the driver has to be loaded.
>
>I know the card is installed properly, and I know it works, because it
>works beautifully with the beta OS/2 PnP drivers. It even works fine with
>DOS programs running under OS/2. But I can't use the card at all in plain
>DOS.
>
>So, I can't install any of the SB32 software, or even use the card under DOS.
>And, I have a minute-long pause during each reboot. Anyone else have these
>problems?
>
I am having the exact problem. I am running on an Intel P90 with Windows
95 installed. I have the SB AWE 32 PnP. Everything works in Windows 95,
and up til last week, everything was working fine in DOS also. I
installed the ICU program that allow PnP device to be configured in DOS.
The driver that was put into CONFIG.SYS ran fine. The only problem I
found then was that my IRQ and Base Address kept on switching between 5
and 10 and 220 and 240, respectively.
However, last week, suddenly, the computer apparently frozed during the
initialization of the PnP device driver (the one put in by ICU). Of
course, at the time I thought the computer froze because it never took
this long to boot before. I didn't change anything in terms of adding or
removing device drivers, programs, etc. so I suspect it may be a hardware
thing. However, I haven't been able to isolate the problem because the
card works perfectly in Win95.
I will try to wait out the LONG pause when loading the driver, but there
must be a solution to this problem. What I don't understand is that why
did it work before and suddenly failed?
ianp...@connect.reach.net
>|The hardware installation went fine, except for one thing: when my
>|computer boots up, it pauses for more than a minute at the BIOS PnP
>|notification (the part where my BIOS tells me it supports PnP).
>
>If so then I'm suprised it's not hanging since it hangs mine no matter where I try to load it in high memory
>though it works immediatly in low memory.
No, the computer pauses _before_ it get's to DOS. It's still in it's POST.
It pauses right where my BIOS tells me it's PnP compatible. It says
something like:
Plug and Play BIOS Extensions, v2.07
(C) Copyright 1993 Intel
(C) Copyright 1993, 1994 American Megatrends, Inc.
And it just waits there for more than a minute before continuing (starting?)
the boot.
When DOS actually decides to load the driver, I get a "cannot find NVS" error.
// Ian Prest
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ianp...@connect.reach.net
>In article <4avkv8$9...@aladdin.iii.org.tw>,
> <ianp...@connect.reach.net> wrote:
>>
>>So, I can't install any of the SB32 software, or even use the card under DOS.
>>And, I have a minute-long pause during each reboot. Anyone else have these
>>problems?
>>
>I am having the exact problem. I am running on an Intel P90 with Windows
>95 installed. I have the SB AWE 32 PnP. Everything works in Windows 95,
>and up til last week, everything was working fine in DOS also. I
>However, last week, suddenly, the computer apparently frozed during the
>initialization of the PnP device driver (the one put in by ICU).
Actually, my computer froze during POST, well before the device
driver gets loaded, and in fact, well before DOS gets loaded. Froze
right at the message where my BIOS states that it supports PnP.
I, too, have an Intel P5-90. AMI BIOS, PnP Extensions v2.07.