bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras) (12/14/90)
I am having trouble booting SCO Unix/386 (3.2.1) when I have my SoundBlaster card installed. When it boots from the install floppy, the equiptment list comes up, and lists the SB as a paralell port. This still happens whether I put it on IRQ5 or IRQ7. My system also has 2 Serials, 1 paralell, a Power Graph VGA (w/V1.4 BIOS), a WD1006-SR2 drive controller, and Pheonix Bios. The motherboard is a Chicony 386SX-16 with 4 Megs of RAM. When the equiptment list gets to the Soundblaster, it prints out 'F8' after the Soundblaster line (reported as a paralell port) an then hangs. Any clues?? Any help would greatly be appreciated. +-----------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Bill Poitras | Polygen Corporation | {princeton mit-eddie | | (bill) | Waltham, MA USA | bu sunne}!polygen!bill | | | | bill@polygen.com | +-----------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
mschedlb@hawk.ulowell.edu (Martin J. Schedlbauer) (12/19/90)
In article <931@redford.UUCP> bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras(X258)) writes: >I am having trouble booting SCO Unix/386 (3.2.1) when I have my >SoundBlaster card installed. When it boots from the install floppy, the >equiptment list comes up, and lists the SB as a paralell port. This >still happens whether I put it on IRQ5 or IRQ7. My system also has 2 >Serials, 1 paralell, a Power Graph VGA (w/V1.4 BIOS), a WD1006-SR2 drive >controller, and Pheonix Bios. The motherboard is a Chicony 386SX-16 with >4 Megs of RAM. When the equiptment list gets to the Soundblaster, it >prints out 'F8' after the Soundblaster line (reported as a paralell port) >an then hangs. Any clues?? Any help would greatly be appreciated. > I have Esix 3.2D with a SoundBlaster at interrupt IRQ 7 and I/O address at the default 220H. My system (at BIOS and Unix) seems to just ignore the SoundBlaster. Occasionally (haven't for a LONG time) I get warnings that interrupts are coming from the printer. IRQ 7 is used for the printers, so that makes sense if the soundblaster gets something through the microphone. The only thing you could try is to reset the soundblaster to an unused IRQ, such as 2. IRQ 5 is used for the serial ports and tape drives. Try to also change the I/O address. ...Martin Martin Schedlbauer (mschedlb@ulowell.edu) Institute for Visualization and Perception Research Department of Computer Science University of Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854 (Tel: (508) 934-3612)