[filmscanners] Re: OT: problems installing SCSI card

["Ezio c/o TIN" <ezio.lucenti1@tin.it>]

Eric, first of all you have to become accustomed to
>start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Informations .... TAB= IRQ
(because you are using W98 ... !!???? isn't it ?) ...
second ... you have to start to become accustomed to the BIOS of your system
as Laurie is rightly telling you ... BUT BE WARNED ! ... the BIOS texts are
somehow obscure and MORE obscure the results of the different parametres !
... DO NOT TOUCH till you are absolutely sure of what the result will be ...
in facts .. BIOS settings are gonna changing the behaviour (at a low level)
of your system thus if not properly set they can (apparently) make your
system unusable or so.

I am available off-list to guide you step by step .... you need (IMHO)
advices because the system and yourself seem to have a conflicting set of
IRQs + difficult or impossible sharing of the same .

Laurie is right ... you should act on the IRQs , the physical sequence of
the PCI boards (when PnP) .. the physical setting of legacy boards with
their IRQs ... etc. etc.  ...
So it is a matter of screw-driver and IRQ hammering ... and remember 2 very
peculiar parametres ! ... PnP Operating System ..... Reset IRQ ...
those 2 parametres of BIOS are not acting as you would likely expect....
IMHO.

Sincerely.

Ezio

www.lucenti.com  e-photography site

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>
To: <ezio.lucenti1@tin.it>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 5:44 AM
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: OT: problems installing SCSI card


It sounds like there is an IRQ conflict in the system where the SCSI card is
conflicting with your video card.  If your video card is an AGP card, then
you can not change the location of it; but you can rearrange the location of
the SCSI card vis-à-vis the other PCI cards in terms of the slot it is using
as the Adaptec Tech suggested.  Alternately, you could go into your system
BIOS and change the IRQ of the slot which your Adaptec card is using.  You
failed to mention if the free IRQ is free with the card installed or without
it installed.  If it is with the card installed, that means one of two
things: either you have two free IRQs with the card not installed or your
SCSI card is sharing an IRQ with something which may be the cause for the
incompatibility.  The devices hooked up to the card will not effect the
conflict that you describe since it is a conflict between the SCSI card and
something else which is at the root of the problem and not one involving the
connected devices.  If it were the latter, the system would boot but it
would not recognize the SCSI devices.

-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Eric Etheridge
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:59 PM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] OT: problems installing SCSI card


I'm trying to install an Adaptec 2906 card in my Gateway desktop and getting
a monitor/video card conflict. When the card installed, the monitor won't
come on when I boot up. I've tried booting with the scanner attached
(Sprintscan400) and with nothing attached; same result both time. When I
pull the card, everything goes back to normal.

My system is a little more than 2 years old; running Win98SE with a
flatscreen monitor and an ATI LCD Panel VideoCard Rev0. Device manager shows
one (and only one) IRQ channel free: 14.

Adaptec tech suggested booting without the scanner, but that didn't work.
His next suggestion was to try reordering PCI cards on the motherboard. I'm
wary of that. Hoping someone here has some guidance, on- or off-list.

Thanks
Eric Etheridge

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