Soundblaster Problem

[smileyone]

Hi,

I am running Win98 and trying to install a Sound Blaster PC128. After the intial install the computer freezes. I boot it into safe mode and disable the card. When I reboot, it says that there is a conflict with the memory space for motherboard resources. So I changed the memory space (made sure it wasn't conflicting with anything else). I rebooted and it still freezes. 3 things were installed with the card, a game port, a legacy device (?), and the regular card. When the card is enabled, my machine freezes on boot just before the desktop comes up. It works ok when it's not. When the legacy device is disabled (but not the sound card) it boots to windows, makes the windows sound and promptly freezes.

Any idea what could be causing this? My machine works fine with the card disabled, but I need a sound card and don't want to find another one.

 

[osuman]

I don't know if it could be the same problem but with mine I had to change the memory hole setting in the bios to 15-16M. Otherwise, windows would freeze everytime I tried to boot in normal mode with the card enabled. Might be worth a shot.

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Have you enabled PCI sharing in the BIOS?

I don't know which BIOS you have, but most modern ones support this feature.

What is certainly happening, given your description, is a conflict, most likely with an IRQ.

With PCI sharing, this should not be an issue.

What other cards do you have in your system, and what is your proc/mobo?