CH>Same experience here Alan. I use the creative labs SB 16 drivers, set t
CH>220,I5, 300 DMA 1 and it works fine. It can vary from 
CH>machine to machine depending on how the PnP is setup in the 
CH>BIOS. It -always- defaults to IRQ 5. There are some DOS 
CH>utils that come with the ESS drivers that will let you see 
CH>what Base, IRQ, DMA an midi settings your card, in your 
CH>system defaults too when booted to DOS. Don't load any SC 
CH>drivers. Just BOOT to DOS command prompt safe mode to 
CH>determine the default settings the card is initially at and 
CH>make those your settings for NT. I had better luck with the 
CH>SB16 drivers than the ESS 1688 drivers in NT.
 AZ> Yep... I replaced the ES1868 card in my desktop w. an SB16PnP... but 
it's 
 AZ> harder to replace the audio in the laptop!
 AZ> I would have thought the settings that work in W95 would work in NT, but 
 AZ> that doesn't seem to be the case.
That's because W95 utilizes PnP and can dynamically change the sound cards 
settings to fit the system so depending on what else you have in the system, 
the base address and IRQ's may not be the default power-up ones. NT doesn't 
use PnP so the card can't be dynamically configured as with W95. You have to 
set it up in NT with whatever manufacturor default IRQ's and address the card 
comes up with at power up. S'why I suggested booting DOS with no drivers 
loaded and using the DOS util's for that card to see what IRQ's and base 
address the card comes up with and then setting NT up to those parameters. 
It's the only way I think you can get a non-manually configurable PnP device 
to work in any operating system that doesn't support PnP.
Non-manually configurable ISA PnP devices are Idiotic. The ISA bus just 
doesn't have the intelligence for it, but it makes good marketing hype eh? 
Maybe next year....
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