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Creative PnP Configuration Manager Readme File
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This file contains important information regarding the
installation of Creative PnP Configuration Manager (CTCM)
and Creative PnP Configuration Utility (CTCU). Please read
all the sections here before you proceed to install this
configuration driver and utility set.
The information here is organized into the following sections:
1. Installing CTCM and CTCU
2. Updating DOS drivers/applications
3. Configuring Your Card in Windows 95 DOS Mode
4. If You Have Another Configuration Manager
5. If You Have Legacy Cards In Your System
6. Incompatibility of CTCU.EXE with SHARE.EXE
NOTE: For more information on using CTCU or CTCM, please refer
to the sections "Using CTCM" and "Using CTCU" in MANUAL.TXT
1. INSTALLING CTCM and CTCU
To install CTCM and CTCU in DOS/Windows 3.x, you just need to
run INSTALL at the command prompt and follow the instructions
on the screen to complete the installation.
After the CTCM installation, you may need to update your DOS
drivers or applications. Please refer to section 2 on updating
DOS drivers/applications.
2. UPDATING DOS DRIVERS/APPLICATIONS
If you have Creative Audio drivers and Creative IDE CD-ROM
drivers then you need to update them with newer versions to
support CTCM, otherwise you don't need to update any of the
files.
You need to do this only after installing CTCM and CTCU.
The following files need to be updated :
1. CTSB16.SYS
2. VIBRA16.SYS
3. DIAGNOSE.EXE
4. CT3DSE.EXE
5. SBIDE.SYS
2.1 Updating CTSB16.SYS or VIBRA16.SYS
You need to update these files to your <C:\SOUND>\DRV
directory. The default directory for <C:\SOUND> is either
SB16 or VIBRA16. You can check your SOUND directory by
doing the following steps:
1. Type SET on the command prompt
2. Your SOUND directory is specified as SOUND=<C:\SOUND>
You need to copy these files to the <C:\SOUND>\DRV directory
2.2 Updating DIAGNOSE.EXE and CT3DSE.EXE
If you have any of these files or both, then you need to
update them with the newer version to support CTCM.
These two files are located in your <C:\SOUND> directory.
Please refer to section 2.1 on how to check your SOUND
directory
You need to copy these files to the <C:\SOUND> directory
2.3 Updating SBIDE.SYS
If you have Creative CDROM driver, then you need to update
the driver with the newer version to support CTCM
This file is located in your <C:\SBCD> directory.
The default directory for <C:\SBCD> is SBCD directory.
You may have to path it to the directory where you stored
the CDROM driver if it has been changed when you installed
it.
After copying the driver to the specified directory, you
need to change the setting in your CONFIG.SYS as follows:
DEVICE=<C:\SBCD>\SBIDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 <other parameters>
to
DEVICE=<C:\SBCD>\SBIDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 /N /P:1E8,11,3EE <other parameters>
NOTE: Please take note of the additional switches /N.
3. CONFIGURING YOUR CARD IN WINDOWS 95 DOS MODE
To enable your PnP card to work properly in a Windows 95 DOS Mode
session, you need to do two things:
a. First, make sure that this card is configured properly in the
windows environment of Windows 95.
b. Next, run CTCM in a Windows 95 DOS Mode session.
CTCM will configure your card according to the settings given
in Windows 95.
To check whether your PnP card has been properly configured in
Windows 95:
a. Click the "My Computer" icon in Windows 95 with your right
mouse button. A shortcut menu will appear.
b. Choose the "Properties" option. The Properties dialog box
will appear.
c. Select the "Device Manager" tabbed page. A list of the
devices in your system will appear.
d. Select the right device type, e.g., "Sound, video and game
controllers", "Modem", or "CD-ROM controllers". A list of
all the devices in that category will appear. Your PnP card
is not properly configured if you see a yellow "!" sign on
the card's icon.
To reconfigure your PnP card in Windows 95, if you see a yellow
"!" sign on your PnP card icon:
a. Click that device and check its device status to find out
what went wrong. Solve the problem and then restart your
computer in Windows 95 to reconfigure your card.
4. IF YOU HAVE ANOTHER CONFIGURATION MANAGER
CTCM can work with or without another configuration manager in
your system.
However, if you already have a different configuration manager
installed in your system, you should check your CONFIG.SYS file
after installing CTCM. Please make sure that the statement which
invokes CTCM is placed after the statement that calls the other
configuration manager.
5. IF YOU HAVE LEGACY CARDS IN YOUR SYSTEM
CTCM configures Creative PnP cards only.
If you have legacy cards in your system, you need to run CTCU
first, to inform CTCM about the hardware resources used by
these legacy cards. After that, you can run CTCM to configure
your Creative PnP card.
Alternatively, if you do not know your legacy cards' settings,
you can use CTCU to change the settings of your PnP card. Then
run CTCM and test whether your card works properly. This is a
trial-and-error method since CTCM will not be "informed" about
the resources that have been reserved by your legacy cards. You
may need to try different combinations of settings before you
can configure your PnP cards successfully, without any hardware
conflicts with existing cards.
6. INCOMPATIBILITY OF CTCU.EXE WITH SHARE.EXE
If you load SHARE.EXE on your machine and then run CTCU.EXE in
Full-Screen mode, CTCU will not load successfully. The reason for
this is that the SHARE.EXE file has been opened by the
Overlay Manager and because of sharing restrictions, the Resource
Manager will fail when it tries to load CTCU.EXE.
If SHARE.EXE is loaded, you will have to unload SHARE.EXE before
running CTCU.EXE in Full-Screen mode. To do this you will need to
comment out the line that loads SHARE.EXE in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file
and then reboot the machine. If you had run SHARE.EXE from the
command line and not from the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, you do not need to
change the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, but you still need to reboot.
Note:
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CTCU.EXE will successfully run in silent mode even if SHARE.EXE is
loaded.
******** END OF README.TXT ********