Re: Help! My LAN card ate my Sound card :(

From: Steve C. Ray (stevec_at_mail.com)
Date: 04/09/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 16:24:12 -0500

Be sure that neither of the cards is installed in the PCI slot next to the
AGP slot. This PCI slot and the AGP slot share the bus , you never want to
have a PCI card installed there. 

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Steve C. Ray
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"hushia" <hushia@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Opticreep" <opticreep@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > I'm at wit's end trying to fix my computer.
> >
> > Ever since I installed an Ethernet card, my computer has not been able
> > to detect my soundcard.  My first guess was that it's an IRQ conflict.
> >  But the problem is, I can't verify this since the soundcard won't
> > even show up under "device manager".
> >
> > I first tried moving around the Soundblaster Live card (and also the
> > LAN card) to different PCI slots.  Once in a while, I'll find a
> > combination such that the computer would detect them both.
> > Unfortunately, this only lasts a short while... as in the next time I
> > reboot, the soundcard vanishes again.
> >
> > This occurs for both WinXP and WinME, since I have a dual-boot system.
> >
> > I vaguely suspect this problem has something to do with drivers from
> > my old USB DSL Modem.  That damn thing installed an "Efficient
> > Networks Virtual Miniport" driver on the both operating systems of my
> > computer.  Whenever I try to uninstall that damn virtual miniport, I
> > get an error message saying that the OS requires it for boot-up.  It
> > won't even uninstall under safe mode.
> >
> > Anyway, does anybody have a suggestion on why my LAN card is causing
> > my PC to ignore my sound card?  Any idea how to remove that virtual
> > miniport?  I'm this ---><--- close to giving up, formatting the drive,
> > and reinstalling WinXP for the umpteenth time.
>
> What happens when you disable PnP in your bios?
>
>

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