After running into this problem myself with a PCI sound card, the only way I was able to get it to function properly was to remove the sound card and let the system come up and assign system resources to everything and then put the PCI card back in and reinstall the drivers. We finally opted for ISA sound cards after having the problem with multiple machines. My advice is not to go with a PCI sound card. Keep working on it and it will finally give in. Randy Ryan -----Original Message----- From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mark Sent: Monday, September 21, 1998 2:41 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [PCBUILD] Hardward Configuration Problem - NT and Pinnacle DC30+ I have been having a problem configuring a PCI card in my NT computer. This is a very real problem for me and any help is appreciated. My computer is: Intel PII 400mhz ASUS MB - P2B-S (scsi on mb) 256mb ATI Xpert 98 8mb AGP Graphics card HDs - WD 9.1 SCSI UW IBM 4.2 SCSI UW Add-on cards: WaveCenter Digital/Optical Sound Card Soundblaster AWE64 Miro DC30+ Audio/Video Capture Card Programs that use the card will crash - but not necessarily right away. Sometimes it works great for a short while. All software and drivers are checking out OK. All drivers have been reinstalled etc. Pinnacle says that it's a hardware configuration problem. When the program crashes, the NT Task Manager can no longer close the program - so it dies and sits on the desk top - motionless and disruptive. Obviously, the card is useless after that point. Under Multimedia|Devices, the only intended appearance of the card is found under video codec - and the desired codec is functioning properly. As this is a specialized card, it is not a standard video or audio card and Pinnacle has not designed it to appear as either an audio or video card. Event Viewer gives me the following message on the crash: DC30 device not found - 0x0001. Data Bytes: 0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 52 00 ......R. 0008: 00 00 00 00 01 00 07 c0 .......À 0010: 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 c0 .......À 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ Data Words: 0000: 00000000 00520001 00000000 c0070001 0010: 00000000 c0000001 00000000 00000000 0020: 00000000 00000000 Any ideas? Mark Nicholas Down & Dirty Records San Francisco, CA ----- **Need help with PCBUILD mailing list? Send an Email to:** Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> or Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]> ----- **Need help with PCBUILD mailing list? Send an Email to:** Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> or Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>