I installed WIN NT Workstation on 4 computers and every Device was automatically detected - everything except the sound card. Installing the sound drivers (The Sound card ist a Soundblaster 128 PCI) had the effect that the network card (Realtek) didn`t work anymore ... Before NT was installed, Windows 98 were installed on these computers and everything worked well (soundcard and networkcard together). I don`t know what to do now. For me it sounds like an IRQ-conflict but I`m new to WinNT and i haven`t detected anything to see which device uses which IRQ. Does anybody know such a programm or knows the problems and knows how to solve it ?

Scary..... There is an application called Windows NT Diagnostics whcih is located in start>programs>administration tools whcih will tell you what is using what. Resourse conflicts in NT can be a real pain and some cards just simply will not allow you to change the IP. Believe it or not the only way you can change it sometimes is to swop the PCI slot the cards sit in and this will force a change of IRQ. The best bet is to first identify if there is a conflict and also how to change the IRQ's of each of the cards and then experiment. Hope that helps

Try downloading updated drivers for your realtek. Nt uses realtek as a generic driver for alot of nic cards. One thing you should no is that pci devices can share IRQ'S. Are you installing the card under multimedia in the control panel? If your not then try that. In control panel click multimedia and then devices ( double click ) and try to configure sound card from there. I hope this helps.