"Gary Roach" <jgroach@NOSPAMcogeco.ca> wrote in message news:<Fc4Zd.10321$RM2.6865@read1.cgocable.net>...
> i'm trying to get an old P1 machine to see a sound blaster card. the card
> works and it's detected in other machines. the machine in question is
> running windows 95. when i plugged it in and booted up i expected that it
> would be detected. it wasn't. i ran the add new hardware wizard. it found
> nothing. i installed the driver manually but it didn't even appear in the
> device manager. i put another disk in and installed windows 98. that didn't
> detect the sound card either. i tried switching PCI slots. made no
> difference. i tried changing the "pnp bios auto config" setting from enabled
> to disabled. (it's an award bios from 1995) that made no difference. i
> noticed that the bios always reports "initializing plug and play devices" at
> boot regardless of the "pnp bios auto config" setting. i'd wanted to
> configure it to not do that and let the os do it but i can't find a setting
> in the bios to turn the pnp bios support off. is there anything else i can
> do? should i try to get a newer bios? thanks for any help.