Win ME won't complete upgrade of old 'puter

[David Maynard]

Thanks again. I disabled sound in BIOS, it booted right up. When I
rebooted, I was able to enable the sound again, and no problem.

The upgrade was successful.

Super duper. One more down and only 44,678,965,397,098.8 left to go (I'm
almost done on the .8 one) in the first stack

Not that I'm counting.

 

[JAD]

Thanks again. I disabled sound in BIOS, it booted right up. When I
rebooted, I was able to enable the sound again, and no problem.

The upgrade was successful.

Don't know what it is about some of those old Sound chips, they really screw
things up sometimes. Glad you got it.

 

[David Maynard]

Don't know what it is about some of those old Sound chips, they really screw
things up sometimes. Glad you got it.

If they have any PCI cards that's likely where the conflict was and the
'old' sound chips are more prone to it because they support 'DOS' sound
blaster mode, which uses ISA bus IRQs, so you have an on-board PCI slot
device emulating ISA IRQs that are not sharable and if you put a PCI card
in that happens to share the same PCI 'slot' with the onboard device then
you potentially have an unreconcilable sharing conflict.

 

[ToolPackinMama]

Don't know what it is about some of those old Sound chips, they really screw
things up sometimes.

I'm glad I asked you guys, cos I never would have guessed that.