At 20:38 3/9/99 +0000, Margaret M. Thompson wrote:
>I have a Quantex 133, 1.9 ghd, with a Matshita PD-1 LF-1000 r/w cdrom
>drive. I also have a Hewlett Packard 5p scanjet that is connected via
>a scsi card. I have had the system since 2/97 and in 4/97 I installed
>the scanner. Everything was working fine until my niece decided that
>the scanner was to slow and she decided to run something called inbox
>repair tool and since that time I have not been able to get anything
>to work properly. The scanner will work now, but the sound card, which
>is an Ensoniq soundscape VIVO90 and the cdrom have an irq conflict.
>
>I have called Quantex technical three times with this problem and
>nothing has worked, i.e. deleting the sound card, the cdrom and the
>scanner and then rebooting and letting the system assign irq to them.
>Now today, I was told that the problem was the cdrom drive, that it
>has a small scsi card and that I cannot use two scsi's. I don't
>understand why it worked for a while and they say it cannot work.
Hi Margaret
You can have as many SCSI cards as you have expansion slots in your
computer. (Well, of course you also need the resources for them, like
free IRQs.) Sounds to me like somebody at Quantex wanted to get you
off the phone.
I have two SCSI cards...I have my hard drives on one card and my
CDROM drive, PD drive (like yours), and scanner (HP 4C) on the
other SCSI card. It's a pity that you don't have one SCSI card for
both the PD drive and the scanner. (You should be able to get an
Adaptec ISA SCSI card for $30...that would be good for your
situation. See, for example, the "Controllers and Accessories"
section of the following web page (near the bottom):
<http://www.Onsale.com/category/Mass_Storage.htm>.
First, does your sound work right now? If not, maybe the easiest
thing to do would be to reinstall your Ensonic sound drivers.
Do this from Device Manager, "Sound, Video, and Game Controllers".
Use the drivers that came with the computer or sound card or
go to <http://www.ensoniq.com/multimedia/mm_html/html/drivers.htm>
and download new drivers. (Read the Ensonic readme file...you might
first have to remove all the old driver files.)
Can you change the IRQ for your sound card by changing the settings
in Control Panel, System, Device Manager? You have to double click
on the Sound Card in Device Manager and go to the Resources tab and
deselect "Use Automatic settings". Then you can change the Basic
Configurations. (You should be able to switch between configuration
0000, 0001, 0002, etc.) This may affect your system's ability to play
sounds. (Does that work now?) Before you change anything, write down
what settings were being used. You may want to get back where you
started.
I am using Win98 here...the settings may be slightly different in
Win95. (I've forgotten the exact sequences.). But the idea is the
same. When you do get your system working again, you should print
out the settings from Device Manager in case it happens again.
Now, if changing your Sound card's resource settings doesn't help,
see if you can change the Device Manager settings for either of your
SCSI cards.
You didn't say if you try removing the SCSI cards from Device Manager
at the same time you removed the sound card, CDROM, and scanner.
Regards,
Bill
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