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"John E" <La-la-land@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Edgar Montrose" <edgarmontrose@vox.org> wrote in message
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> > "John E" <La-la-land@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > > Whenever I put my soundcard into my machine at the same time as my
> internal
> > >  modem my WinXP machine crashes.
> > >
> > > I believe it might have something to do with an IRQ conflict, but I've
> not
> > > had to play about with these kind of settings for years - so I'm very
> rusty.
> > > Another problem is that I can't get into device manager to make
changes
> > > because my machine hangs before I get there.
> > >
> > > I need advice about the best way to modify the IRQ settings so it
> works - if
> > > that is the cause. Has anyone got any advice on this?
> > >
> > > If it's not the problem does anyone know what the cause could be?
> > >
> > The best way is to remove both, reboot WITHOUT them, and let Win free
the
> > IRQs, and you remove
> > any device entries manually. Power down and do complete install of the
> > modem FIRST. Power down
> > and do the sound card installation second.
> >
> > This is assuming:
> >
> > You have a PNP BIOS and these are modern cards that don't use jumpers or
> > switches for IRQ
> > assignments.
>
> It's still not working. I've made a few observations though:
>
> 1) The modem (Intel V92 Ham/Fax/Data/Voice PCI) works fine without the
> soundcard (Creative Soundblaster 128 PCI) in the machine
> 2) The machine crashes (freezes/hangs) whenever it tries to use the modem,
> with the soundcard installed and enabled.
> 3) The machine doesn't crash, but the modem doesn't *work* with the
> soundcard installed but *disabled*.
> 4) The soundcard works fine with the modem installed.
> 5) There are no reported IRQ conflicts in device manager
> 6) I have WindowsXP.
>
> I don't know how to fix this problem - does anyone have any other
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John Elliott
>

Have you tried moving the cards around in the computer, tried using
different combinations of slots?

Ian