I'm not real familiar with installing SCSI cards, however, you have a couple
of options available.  One is to reserve an IRQ for the SCSI card in Win98.
This is done in your device manager.  Click on your computer, then the tab
Reserve Resources and assign the IRQ you want the SCSI device to take.  If
you're not comfortable with that, remove a couple of your periphirals, such
as your sound card.  Then install the SCSI device.  Reinstall the Sound Card
and Windows98 should reassign it a different IRQ (note this is only true if
it is a "plug & play" device, if not you will need to manually set the IRQ
via jumpers on the card).  Win98 allows some devices to share an IRQ, but
sometimes isn't real good at moving the devices to a different IRQ when
necessary.

Dan Shaughnessy


>  My desktop is a HP Pavilion running with Windows 98 and I bought it
> for its 'expanding possibilities' as announced. It has in fact 5 free
slots
> to insert cards. It is a reasonable good fast PC.
> When I now  plucked in my first card (SCSI for an adaptec device ),
> big surprise: the computer tells me that there is no IRQ available and
> that I should free some around here. (?!?) I did then sacrificate my
> MIDI device on IRQ 9, and use it for SCSI, but the system keeps on
> reminding me that I shouldn't do that.
> As I understand, Windows 98 is taking care of all the interrupts for
> it's plug'n play cards, or something like that.
> Isn't this amazing? Having 5 free slots and not being able to use
> them in a normal way as in the good times when you just could plug
> anything in yout motherboard without problems!
> Is there a way to get around this barrier? or what can I do?
> Could any utility software help? Any hardware?
>

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