Hi, I am doing a fresh install of Win 3.11, for a friend, on her 486 Gateway and everything has gone smooth until a try to configure the sound card and CDROM. I have tried installing the Nec_Ide.sys driver for the CD first and then the Sound Card with JAZZ software, but the Sound Card driver configurations kick out the CD. I have also tried Sound Card first but it continues to try and configure my CD as a Sony or Mitsumi and it doesn't work. The Readme on the 16-bit Gateway audio card says it only supports Sony or Mitsumi. These two originally worked together however Gateway installed them but I am stumped! Any ideas out there? Anyone else own a 486 Gateway with a Nec CDROM and G2kAudio 16-bit sound Card? Thank you! Kathy

I forgot to mention the CD Rom works fine until the sound card installs. Than the Sound card works fine but the CD configuration is a mess. I have tried editing the Autoexec.bat and config.sys to point back to the correct driver (as it had been set up - I backed up both autoexec and config and *.ini, *.grp) but this does not work either. On boot it reads like this: Himem is testing extended memory - done Oak Technology Inc. 0T1-011 CDROM Device Driver Rev.A17_f12 Copyright Oak Technology Inc. 1993 Device Name: MSCD001 Transfer Mode: Programmed I/0 (pauses here awhile) Drive not ready, aborting installation C:\>set blaster = A220 D1 15 H3 T4 C:\>C:\Windows\MSCDEX.exe /D:MSCD001 /M:10 /V Device driver not found: 'MSCD001'. No valid CDROM device driver selected C:\>C:\Dos\Smartdrv.exe /x C:\> The Floppy that contains the sound card is labeled "Gateway 2000 Driver Disk 16 bit Audio Card Version 2.0 (16MVCARD)" It installs a C:\G2KAUDIO directory and shows up in program manager as Jazz. Hope this helps with a possible answer. Thanks again. Kathy

Please tell me how people responded to your email about installing a CDRom in Windows 3.11. I have been having the same problem! Let me know PLEASE! Thanks