I'm having a problem with installing any new hardware under XP home. I
start with just a video card, and when I try to add a Soundblaster PC
128 for example, it won't find the driver which is in the cd drive.
Same for a new wireless LAN (with XP drivers). The drivers are there,
it recognizes the hardware as only a network controller, but refused to
find the driver.

Config highlights:

PIII 1 Ghz
512 meg ram at 133
All MB drivers installed as from ASUS
4 gig IDE drive, half full
Nothing overclocked

Do I have a hardware (MB) problem with the PCI bus, or is there s setup
issue here. Thanks for any help.

Dennis

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> I'm having a problem with installing any new hardware under XP home. I
> start with just a video card, and when I try to add a Soundblaster PC
> 128 for example, it won't find the driver which is in the cd drive.
> Same for a new wireless LAN (with XP drivers). The drivers are there,
> it recognizes the hardware as only a network controller, but refused to
> find the driver.
>
> Config highlights:
>
> PIII 1 Ghz
> 512 meg ram at 133
> All MB drivers installed as from ASUS
> 4 gig IDE drive, half full
> Nothing overclocked
>
> Do I have a hardware (MB) problem with the PCI bus, or is there s setup
> issue here. Thanks for any help.

The SoundBlaster may wish to have its own IRQ. And the WLAN may be
picky, too.

You may check the IRQ distribution in the Device Manager.

And you may switch PCI slots.

Trial and error...

r0y

Thanks Roy...

Which PCI slot doesn't seem to matter. The WLAN card doesn't seem
to care in a Win98SE2 install (on a P2B), but I don't know if it would
be any different in an XP install.

Forgot to mention that this MB also behaves badly with a Win98
install...(sorry, it was late)

It also behaves badly with both the newest beta BIOS and an older
stable version (1003 I think..Im not close to it now.)

Some BIOS setting I'm overlooking? Thanks again for any
help.

Dennis

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> Thanks Roy...
>
> Which PCI slot doesn't seem to matter. The WLAN card doesn't seem
> to care in a Win98SE2 install (on a P2B), but I don't know if it would
> be any different in an XP install.
>
> Forgot to mention that this MB also behaves badly with a Win98
> install...(sorry, it was late)
>
> It also behaves badly with both the newest beta BIOS and an older
> stable version (1003 I think..Im not close to it now.)
>
> Some BIOS setting I'm overlooking? Thanks again for any
> help.


Well, my CUSL2-C Rev.1.02 behaves well with the last BIOS which is
1014.001 of 20.09.2002 and Windows XP Prof SP2.

Win98 is practically dead, and Win98SE is out-of-date.
(I use the cumulative update packs for the various Windows versions
from WinBoard, see
<http://download.winboard.org/downloads.php?ordner_id=101>.)

You may try actual SoundBlaster drivers from www.creative.com.

You will remember setting BIOS values to default both before and after
flashing.

And that's the end of my wisdom;-)

Roy

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> I'm having a problem with installing any new hardware under XP home.
> I start with just a video card, and when I try to add a Soundblaster
> PC 128 for example, it won't find the driver which is in the cd drive.

When I installed WinXP Pro with a SB AudioPCI 128 (CT4810), the inbuilt XP
driver worked just fine. Could it be that XP has decided that it's own
driver is the best?
What does device manager say?

Device manager just says its a "PCI card", doesn't even recognize it as
an audio board.

I realize that Win98 is old news...I simply used it to help isolate the
problem (OS, MB, BIOS, etc.)

My hunch is either a BIOS problem (I will check the settings again), or
a hardware failure.

thanks to all for the help..keep it coming .

Dennis