OT: Mylex problems

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Mon Feb 4 00:41:29 2002

Have you set Plug & Play OS? to NO in the computer's BIOS setup???

  Have you gone into the PCI / PNP set up in the bios and manually assigned
IRQ's?

At 10:16 PM 2/3/02 -0700, you wrote:
>I've tried it with the BIOS turned off and also with it enabled.
>Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to get past the point of conflicting at the I/O
>addresses, buffer memory range assignment, and interrupt. All of these are in
>collision with local system resources. Windows asserts that none of the
>assignments can be changed in Device Manager.
>
>Dick
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Doc" <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
>To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 2:52 PM
>Subject: Re: OT: Mylex problems
>
>
> > On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> >
> > > I've verified that the drives, cable chain, and termination works
>perfectly
> > > with Adaptec and SIIG controllers. I'm thinking that the problem lies
> > > strictly in the plug-n-play setup. Is there a way to "force" these
> > > assignments on this card? The Win95 clearly complains of conflicts in
>nearly
> > > every resource. I'm looking at trying to force it in a different
>motherboard,
> > > since the BIOS features of this HP system are somewhat restrictive
> and not
> > > totally transparent.
> >
> > If the BIOS will allow you to turn off "PnP OS", I'd do that. Then
> > you can force W95 to accept hard setting assignments for most resources
> > in Device Manager.
> > Is the Mylex BIOS running at boottime? If so, any conflicts should be
> > solvable in Windows.
> > But you probably know all that....
> >
> > Doc
> >
> >
Received on Mon Feb 04 2002 - 00:41:29 GMT