Booting SCO with Sound Blaster installed (QUERY)

[Martin J. Schedlbauer]

In article <931 at redford.UUCP> bill at 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 at ulowell.edu)
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
Department of Computer Science
University of Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854		(Tel: (508) 934-3612)