[filmscanners] Re: OT: problems installing SCSI card

["Charles Knox" <cknox@netspace.net.au>]

At 10:59 PM 14/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm trying to install an Adaptec 2906 card in my Gateway desktop and getting
>a monitor/video card conflict. When the card installed, the monitor won't
>come on when I boot up. I've tried booting with the scanner attached
>(Sprintscan400) and with nothing attached; same result both time. When I
>pull the card, everything goes back to normal.
>
>My system is a little more than 2 years old; running Win98SE with a
>flatscreen monitor and an ATI LCD Panel VideoCard Rev0. Device manager shows
>one (and only one) IRQ channel free: 14.
>
>Adaptec tech suggested booting without the scanner, but that didn't work.
>His next suggestion was to try reordering PCI cards on the motherboard. I'm
>wary of that. Hoping someone here has some guidance, on- or off-list.
>
>Thanks
>Eric Etheridge

That's quite a legitimate thing to do (Windows will/should automatically
re-organise itself when you do this), and a SCSI card will often cause
problems with video if it's in a PCI slot that's "paired" with the one the
video card is in.

Note this applies even if you have AGP video -- don't ask me why...

On my 6 months old Athlon machine SCSI cards will only work in PCI slot 5
under Win98SE -- will work in *any* slot under XP.

On my older unit (Gigabyte HX2 -- HX chipset, AMD K6-2/400, no AGP, 4 years
old) any PCI SCSI card will work in *any* PCI slot under either OS.

Go figure...

Have you tried removing both the SCSI card *and* the video card via Device
Manager, so that Windows finds new locations for both when you restart?

Often works.

If you do this you'll probably have to reset your screen resolution etc.,
but that should be all.

Charles

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