Hi,

Does the board in question have USB built in?  Did you Check the BIOS and
try and disable it?
Did you try a different chipset USB card?  Is it a USB1.1 or USB 2.0 card?
 What chipset is on the card?

Did you try swapping the sound cards and video cards between the two boards
and try to narrow down the item causing the conflict?  Sometimes just
placing the card in a different PCI slot may clear up problems like this.

Unfortunatley not everything in the market place, plays well together.

Actually, it is surprising that things work as well as they do, with all
the different software and hardware there is out there.



At 06:28 PM 02/21/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>I ran into a problem on an older (P166) computer with Windows 98SE. The
>Win98SE is a clean install with no application software yet installed.
>When I add a USB card, the system detects the new hardware properly, but
>when it tries to add the driver, I hangs. I tried several time to get it
>installed, but no luck. The same card installed on a very similar P120
>system with no such problems. I can't finish the boot when the board is
>in place because Win98 insists on adding the drivers and we are back to
>the lockup again. Should I assign specific IRQs to the PCI slot in BIOS?
>There is a Diamond Stealth 64 PCI video, and an ISA Microsoft sound
>board in it. Any suggestions?
>
>Peter

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