Hi,
I'm setting up a system with an Asus CUV4X-LS and 1Ghz Celeron with dual 160 SCSI controllers built in. I'm running SCSI channel A (IRQ10) for a 50pin CD-RW drive. Channel B (IRQ11) is dedicated for an Ultra2Wide HDD for booting. Everything is working great up to this point. I'm currently using Win98SE. Enters the soundcard, which has been keeping me up every night this week. Initially, there is a conflict problem between my SCSI-B and my onboard sound card (C-Media 8738 chip), for some reason, the onboard sound card would keep sharing IRQ11 with my SCSI-B controller. Whenever I play any sound, it'll freeze. When I attempt to change SCSI-B's IRQ from device manager, it'll give me a common error saying that "resource cannot be modified". I have already disabled COM2, so there's at least 2 open IRQ's that unused (3 and 5). The only other cards in my computer are an ATI AllInWonder128 and a USR 802.11b card, which has no issues. So at this point, I assume my onboard sound is bad and would not let go of IRQ11, so I disabled it. I borrowed an Aureal Vortex PCI soundcard from a friend and tried to install it, of course it defaulted to IRQ11 also. But this time since it's a PCI card, I was able to manually force it to IRQ5 in my BIOS. But guess what, my stupid SCSI-B followed along and shared IRQ5 with the sound card! DAMN IT! Now I found out that wherever a soundcard goes, SCSI-B tags along! Frustrating thing is I cannot modify any IRQ settings in Device Manager. Onboard SCSI channels have no manual IRQ settings of it's own. There's open IRQ's with "ACPI PCI steering" sitting there, but SCSI-B wouldn't use em. Also, soundcard's I've used seem to take 2 IRQ's when installed: one for the PCI device, the other for the SoundBlaster Emulator (which I've tried to disable), but it doesn't help the conflict. Please let me know if you've ever came across similar issues. If I cannot solve this, my only other option is to go without a soundcard and get a set of USB speakers. Thank you.
-Dennis
