sound card problems

[jepeters]

I had to do some sound card shuffling today. On one machine, I removed a SB Live Value card and replaced it with a PC Ensoniq. The Ensoniq works fine, but when the computer is starting up, it hangs for a while and then gives a message saying it can't find the Sound Blaster Live card (this is a DOS screen error message, before Windows is loaded). It goes on and loads Windows and everything seems to work fine, but I hate the delay. I have removed all SB software.

On another machine, I took out the current sound card and replaced it with an OptiSound card. On startup I now get the DOS screen error message saying that there is a conflict with the 3-com network card. I have to press a key to continue. Again, everything seems to load and work just fine. The sound card and the network card work, and each one has its own IRQ in device manager (no yellow circles).

Any suggestions as to how to get rid of these 'problems'?

[Ricksta]

All you need to do is goto Safe Mode and change the drivers...

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[glc]

When you remove a Live, you need to remove all lines in config.sys and autoexec.bat that refer to it.

The Opti is trying to use the same IRQ that the NIC is - you have to reserve the IRQ's the Opti needs in BIOS as "legacy ISA". (I assume the Opti is an ISA card?)

[jepeters]

well, the sound blaster problem has seemed to resolve itself--it quit giving the error even though I didn't change anything.

As for the Opti and 3-com cards, I replaced the 3-com with a different brand of network card and everything is working fine.

thanks