I am trying to set up a SCSI host adapter on a computer running Windows NT 4.0. When I install the host adapter (Adaptec 152X,1510), the adapter and the tape backup drive that attaches to it seem to work, but I get error messages about IRQ and I/O address conflicts and my network card will not work. I would just love to know, what is it that a person has to do in order to take a little bit of the control of IRQs into my own hands when running NT. Appreciate any helpful hints. Thanks

Moin Glenn, as far as I could find out, your card is a ISA card. Read the documentation, to find out how to change the card's IRQ and I/O address by setting jumpers on it. If I'm wrong and both (NIC and SCSI card) are PCI, you can try to change PCI-IRQs in your system BIOS and change the used PCI-slot. mfG, Carl.

Carl Thanks for your reply. I forgot to say anything about ISA or PCI. The SCSI card is an ISA and the PCI is a fairly new Linksys Fast Ethernet card. I haven't even checked about jumpers on the card, but I'll look. There is a certain amount of control in the BIOS. You are most likely right that there is something that I can do with some jumpers. I thought maybe there was some secret in NT that I haven't found yet.

Moin Glenn, the secret in NT is, that you can't change resources the way it works in Win 98 :-). As I figured out your SCSI-card is an ISA card, which normally have jumpers to set IRQ and I/O address. Please check your system for free IRQs and I/O adresses (Start, run, winmsd) and read the event-log, then set the jumpers and it should work. mfG, Carl.

Carl You are a genious. I didn't know about winmsd, but that pointer is going to help me alot down the road. I found the documentation for the SCSI card. Sure enough, they are plenty of jumpers on it. Thanks.

Moin Glenn, thanks for the friendly feedback. I hope it will work. One more advice: run rdisk /s to have a current ERD-floppy and repair directory, if you have WinNT resource-kit from Microsoft, use regback in addition. If you change BIOS settings, write down your original settings, to be able to restore it, in case the box won't start any more. mfG, Carl.