IO ERRORS

Did this system boot up before? Was some thing added like a new card, memory stick or drive? Try removing every thing except the memory and video and try booting. Check all of your connections, like the keyboard, mouse and reseat the memory, video card. Where in the post does it stop, do you see the detection screen where the drives and memory show? Do you practice safe esd and ground your self before working inside your computer? You might download drdos a program that loads into memory that dose not need the bios to run. To check out your system. Error IO means that the basic input output the main thing that controls your system is not working. Do you use a good virus scanner?

If this is a "post" error, then yes, it can be a bad plug-in card. If you just added the scsi card, I would start by removeing it.

If this is a windows startup error, it is likely a driver / memory issue.

I would start by removeing any new cards.
If the system now boots, then you need to determine what is the problem.

Is the card bad?

Does the driver need to be installed before the card?

Is there an IRQ / address conflict with another device?
Check the motherboard manual to see what the default IRQ assignments are for the slots. Is there a different slot that may have less chance for a conflict?
Check for configuration jumpers on the card, and make sure that they do not conflict with any installed devices. If you are not using them, disable the on-board comm ports to free up resources.

Chas

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