Wow.. I recently changed my Os from windows 95 to windows NT 4.0 . Everything went smothly except, my sound card was not working. I didnt have a speaker icon on my little tray. So first thing I went to was the system icon in the control panel. Was I in a big surprise. There isn't a device manager like windows 95 and 98 where if there is a problem, it will give you a yellow bubble. So I figured, ok, Ill just go to Add new hardware icon. To my surprise again, there wasnt a new hardware icon to click on. Am I missing something here? I went thru the whole control panel and nothing.. Is there any way to add new hardware, ISA type or a feature where it can tell me whats wrong with a particular divice, ie, yellow bubble. thanks...

BEWARE! When adding a sound card, make ABSOLUTELY SURE that you have the correct drivers for Win NT 4.0. This has caused all sorts of problems for us, unless we had the right drivers. Lots of blue screens of death. Biggest difference is that Win NT is not plug and play. You will find some devices that worked in Win95 may not work in Win NT. Try looking under Admin Tools (I think) to add devices in Win NT. My machine runs 98, I'm a little rusty on the device options in NT and cannot boot here (but run at work ok). You may have to go through "System" or something similar in Control Panel. I Can't remember, sorry.

In NT4, all sound devices are loaded in the multimedia module in the control panel.

Hey Martin! Thanks for the info... I stumbled on to soemthing, I was playing around with the NT setup CD and I went into D:\drvlib\x86\ and found a file called pnpisa.sys . I right clicked it and click on install. Then I restarted my computer and guess what? It started to detect and install my hardware just like in win95 and 98. Which is great except went it came to my sound card. It was for a driver so I provided with a NT version audio driver for a ESS 1868 sound card. But it would not take it. Problem I am having now is each time i boot my computer it detects my hardware and installs the drivers for it, but each time I boot up. I had to do with the file I installed. Is there a way to uninstall the file I installed from the NT setup cd?