My Win95a desktop has been working perfectly for years. Now, my HP4P
scanner is showing that it's not detected. Device Manager shows a
yellow exclamation mark by the Symbios Logic SCSI card and says it's
conflicting with the sound card. I also lost the sound. I deleted the
Joystick entry for the Creative Soundblaster 16 card, and then the
sound card entry disappeared entirely from Device Manager. Also, the
Sportster modem now says it can't connect, even though Device Manager
says it is working properly. Modem diagnostics says it can't connect
to the modem. I went to Control Panel and asked Windows to detect new
hardware. After searching, it couldn't find any new hardware. Any thoughts
on where to start in order to solve these hardware conflicts?

Thanks!
Scott

"Scott" <golden@uslink.net> wrote in message
news:454B8F57.2261E283@uslink.net...

Have you made any changes in the bios lately?

Many motherboards have the option to have the PCI slots assign resurces
automatically or manually.

Also...
Try booting to safe mode and deleting all instances of the above mentioned
devices...
then reboot and let windows reinstall them


If you still have problems,physically remove two of the three devices
and reinstall one at a time

philo wrote:
philo,

Thanks for your advice. I've made some progress. I went into the BIOS and the
peripheral configuration was set to Manual, so I changed it to Automatic. Now
the modem works fine, although the scanner still doesn't connect, and the sound
card still doesn't show up in Device Manager...so perhaps one of those two cards
has gone bad. I noticed that the scanner IRQ has moved from 4 to 5, which probably
explains why the modem now workd.

I'l try the safe mode suggestion tomorrow, and finally remove all but oen of the
cards.

Also, my 12-year old ATX motherboard has the CMOS bettery soldered in, so it can't
be replaced. It's possible the weakening battery is causing a problem...although
the clock still keeps good time.

I'll let you know what I find out next.

Scott

philo wrote:

philo,

By the way, Device Manager says that the SCSI card is working properly...even
though it still doesn't connect. Does that mean anything?

Thanks!
Scott

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Don't have an answer for that..

If there are no h/w conflicts and it's got the right driver...it may just
plain be bad.


BTW: those solder-in batteries *can* be changed...
but if you are not good at soldering...you should not fool with it