Eric, first of all you have to become accustomed to >start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Informations .... TAB= IRQ (because you are using W98 ... !!???? isn't it ?) ... second ... you have to start to become accustomed to the BIOS of your system as Laurie is rightly telling you ... BUT BE WARNED ! ... the BIOS texts are somehow obscure and MORE obscure the results of the different parametres ! ... DO NOT TOUCH till you are absolutely sure of what the result will be ... in facts .. BIOS settings are gonna changing the behaviour (at a low level) of your system thus if not properly set they can (apparently) make your system unusable or so.
I am available off-list to guide you step by step .... you need (IMHO) advices because the system and yourself seem to have a conflicting set of IRQs + difficult or impossible sharing of the same . Laurie is right ... you should act on the IRQs , the physical sequence of the PCI boards (when PnP) .. the physical setting of legacy boards with their IRQs ... etc. etc. ... So it is a matter of screw-driver and IRQ hammering ... and remember 2 very peculiar parametres ! ... PnP Operating System ..... Reset IRQ ... those 2 parametres of BIOS are not acting as you would likely expect.... IMHO. Sincerely. Ezio www.lucenti.com e-photography site ICQ: 139507382 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 5:44 AM Subject: [filmscanners] RE: OT: problems installing SCSI card It sounds like there is an IRQ conflict in the system where the SCSI card is conflicting with your video card. If your video card is an AGP card, then you can not change the location of it; but you can rearrange the location of the SCSI card vis-�-vis the other PCI cards in terms of the slot it is using as the Adaptec Tech suggested. Alternately, you could go into your system BIOS and change the IRQ of the slot which your Adaptec card is using. You failed to mention if the free IRQ is free with the card installed or without it installed. If it is with the card installed, that means one of two things: either you have two free IRQs with the card not installed or your SCSI card is sharing an IRQ with something which may be the cause for the incompatibility. The devices hooked up to the card will not effect the conflict that you describe since it is a conflict between the SCSI card and something else which is at the root of the problem and not one involving the connected devices. If it were the latter, the system would boot but it would not recognize the SCSI devices. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Etheridge Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] OT: problems installing SCSI card I'm trying to install an Adaptec 2906 card in my Gateway desktop and getting a monitor/video card conflict. When the card installed, the monitor won't come on when I boot up. I've tried booting with the scanner attached (Sprintscan400) and with nothing attached; same result both time. When I pull the card, everything goes back to normal. My system is a little more than 2 years old; running Win98SE with a flatscreen monitor and an ATI LCD Panel VideoCard Rev0. Device manager shows one (and only one) IRQ channel free: 14. Adaptec tech suggested booting without the scanner, but that didn't work. His next suggestion was to try reordering PCI cards on the motherboard. I'm wary of that. Hoping someone here has some guidance, on- or off-list. Thanks Eric Etheridge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
