How do I install a sound card SB on Win NT?
Hi, I just change my old system OS from Win 98 to Win NT 4. I am having problem in installing the SB sound card. The error message that I get is the port is used by another. . . . Does anybody know how to fix it? Thanks Darno.
Hi, I just change my old system OS from Win 98 to Win NT 4. I am having problem in installing the SB sound card. The error message that I get is "the port is used by another ...". Does anybody know how to fix it? Thanks
Darno
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A big guess here but from experience I have two SB Live cards working in two NT4 machines workstation/server - they work fine So they ought to work - my guess - Win98 is happy to share IRQ's I've been told/lead to understand that NT4 hates the idea - so I'm guessing that your sound card and another card are sharing an IRQ and I think this is where the ports come in - ports/memory locations??? So the solution might be to try the card in a different PCI slot or use the BIOS to manually allocate IRQ's. I've seen where the AGP socket on an MBoard shares the same IRQ as the PCI slot next to it - you might want to avoid that configuration as a starting point. The old SB AWE cards had configuration settings to persuade them to use different IRQ/memory settings I don't remember seeing those options in the more recent card though so it may be down to where the card is installed.
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