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 Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html