I believe the sound card controller for the IDE CD-ROM  would require
an IRQ for itself. I might expect it to select IRQ 10.
Please be sure BOTH the CD-ROM and the SOUND CARD are IDE.
Sound Cards have had various interfaces besides IDE. (Look the same.)
             Rick Glazier
----- Original Message -----
From: Harvey Rose <[log in to unmask]>
> If one installs a harddrive using IRQ#14 & and installs a CDROM IDE from
> the sound card should these use 2 different IRQs or are they assigned just
> one?  I'm having trouble putting in an orginial drive in the PS/1,  which I
> was putting in the ACER 18X, I get an error 10 in Windows 98 from the
> driver detail.

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