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  • June 22, 2000 at 10:07 am #2075536

    Unable to install sound card on NT4 syst

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    by skgleason · about 24 years, 12 months ago

    System: Pentium II-MMX 350 MHz, 8 GB HD, 64 MB of Ram, DCS-S819 PCI Sound card, SCSI PCI Card (Iomega AVA-2903B)
    Problem: After I installed the SCSI card, the sound would only work intermittently. I decided to try to reinstall the driver. I kept getting a message that said the auddrive.dll was already installed, did I want to use the current driver or install a new one. Finally I renamed the auddrive.dll & auddrive.sys. Then it the system would completely lock-up when I tried to install the driver. I totally deleted the files, rebooted, copied the auddrive.dll & .sys files from the NT4 CD. I also reinstalled SP4. It now gives the following message “Unable to install the driver file. There may be a problem with your system. Check your system integrity or contact your system administrator.” It does ask for an I/O address, but I tried every one without success. I’ve downloaded the most current driver. Any ideas?

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    • June 22, 2000 at 10:23 am #3783842

      Unable to install sound card on NT4 syst

      by calves · about 24 years, 12 months ago

      In reply to Unable to install sound card on NT4 syst

      This one is hard to pinpoint it from here.
      However, it seems to me, and I might be wrong, that you have run out of resources. The SCSI card first conflicted with the sound card and now won’t let your card use the resources. Particularly for NT, devices often are design to look for a specific resource on the system, not allowing the user to manipulate it like in WIN 9X or 2000.

      That’s my 2 cents.

      Good luck!

    • June 22, 2000 at 11:57 am #3783818

      Unable to install sound card on NT4 syst

      by mckaytech · about 24 years, 12 months ago

      In reply to Unable to install sound card on NT4 syst

      I don’t think it’s likely that you’re out of resources unless you have a whole lot of other cards you’re not telling us about or legacy IRQs have been assigned in the BIOS.

      My guess, and unfortunately it is only that, is that the registry is confused. If you’re feeling bold, I would go into the registry with regedit, and use the Find function to locate any key associated with the driver files and delete it (make SURE you have a backup). Delete the driver files again. Reboot and then try a fresh install.

      You might also try moving the sound card to a different PCI slot (especially if it is slot 1 on a motherboard that supports an AGP video card).

      Hope this helps… it’s an interesting problem.

      paul

    • June 23, 2000 at 11:18 am #3783543

      Unable to install sound card on NT4 syst

      by tuck46 · about 24 years, 12 months ago

      In reply to Unable to install sound card on NT4 syst

      sounds like an irq conflict, you might want to try a different irq and/or try setting up a little more generic driver, something sb compatible.

    • June 24, 2000 at 3:33 am #3784190

      Unable to install sound card on NT4 syst

      by avidetto · about 24 years, 12 months ago

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      You have blown your NT workstations ability to install/reinstall SCSI. Adaptec is a very bad offender of this (2930/40) series will blow the function every time if you don’t choose to update the aic9x.sys and one other driver. Basicly, you got a badcopy of a driver. You stated you had a newer copy of the driver, good, I suggest you start with a clean build, put this HD as secondary if possible, or if you have ghost, make a gho file of it, & reghost your HD. Once you get the drivers correct, itmay be a good idea to create a build of the system with the SCSI working ot prevent future down time. It’s easier to ghost & transfer data/software than to spend time troubleshooting errors that are causing other errors, then you fix them which causes other errors. If you want one last troubleshoot tip on this system though, try rclient into the box, then do the regsvr32 /u with the system logged off, then rename the file & remote copy it to the location. regsvr32 the dll back into the reg. This will prevent it fro

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