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Josh B wrote in message <36427F92.7B1EB685@ozemail.com.au>...

>>>>> The scanner SCSI card (sorry, I don't think I said SCSI) can use
>>>>> IRQ 9, 10, 11, 12. It is currently set (I'm using the scanner currently
>>>>> and not the NIC) on 10, and it can accept 140 or 340 as the I/O.

>>>> How did you decide that, the same way as with the NIC below ?

>>> I looked in the manual.

>> OK, likely reliable info. Just which card is it ?

> What, the SCSI or the NIC.

The SCSI card.

> SCSI is a Adaptec AVA-1502AP supplied in the box with my Cannon scanner.

Just wondered in case it had some known PnP quirk.

>>>>> I'm not really sure what the NIC can use, but I think it is
>>>>> only IRQ 10 and not sure about the I/O. In Win95 settings,
>>>>> the basic config. button only has one setting it can use.

>>>> That stuff depends on whether Win9x has managed to identify
>>>> the NIC properly and how you installed it. If you used the Have
>>>> Disk option it essentially uses the .inf for that detail, its a bit
>>>> different with a NIC that it has identified for itself with a hardware
>>>> scan and you never used anything that came with the NIC.

>>> Used a disk.

>> Try deleting it and installing it by having Win9x scan for new hardware. It does
>> a pretty good job with quite a few NICs and may well solve your problem.

> What, as a default NIC.

It doesnt normally do that with NICs, it normally manages
to work out what they are and install them appropriately.

> I used the scan new hardware as the manual suggested,

Did it claim to have found a NIC it recognised ?

> and then you specify the file on the disk as the 'Other Locations'.

?  You normally hit the Have Disk button.

>>>> You dont appear to have said exactly what the NIC
>>>> is model wise etc tho you do imply that its a new
>>>> PnP card. Rather unlikely to be that limited if it is.

>>> It is a MicraDigital PCI PnP 10mbps network card.

>> OK, may show up as Realtek with Win9x scanning for new hardwar.

> Yeah, the ISA came up as a Realtek.

What ?  What ISA ?

> But in the scan for new hardware, Win95 called it a Pcind3 Ethernet Adapter.

OK. Just accept that and dont use the disk. It may well ask
you for the Win95 distribution to get the drivers etc for it.

>> > I tried to install it like I did the ISA card in my old 486,
>> > but Win95 said it was PnP, and it installed it itself.

>> Worth trying without the disk, Win9x may do a rather better job by itself.

> Will do.

And if that doesnt work, try doing it all again with the sound card
removed. Remove the NIC and sound card, reboot right up into Win95.
Turn the system off and install just the NIC, dont use the disk supplied
with the NIC. That's in case its getting a bit confused with a shortage
of IRQs. Then if that works with both the scanner and the NIC, add
the sound card last and it may well be able to allocate it properly too.