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- Creative PnP Configuration Manager Readme File
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-
- This file contains important information regarding the installation
- of Creative Plug and Play (PnP) cards using 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 in Windows 95
- 2. Configuring Your Card in Windows 95 DOS Mode
- 3. If You Have Another Configuration Manager
- 4. If You Have Legacy Cards In Your System
- 5. 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 your manual
- or "DOS/Windows 3.x & Windows 95 DOS Mode Plug and Play
- Installation Tips" leaflet.
-
-
- 1. INSTALLING CTCM IN WINDOWS 95
-
- If you have just upgraded your operating system from DOS/Windows 3.x
- to Windows 95, but do not have any Windows 95 software for your
- Creative PnP cards, follow the steps below to configure these cards
- properly:
-
- 1. Use your Windows Explorer to look for a CTCM.INF file in your
- CTCM directory.
- 2. Right-click on the file and select Install from the shortcut menu
- that appears.
- This program will copy some drivers into your system to configure
- your PnP cards in MS-DOS Mode. It will also convert into remarks
- all CTCM/CTCU statements in your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files
- as Windows 95 will take care of all PnP configurations in its
- Windows and DOS box environments.
-
-
- 2. 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.
-
-
- 3. 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.
-
-
- 4. 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.
-
-
- 5. 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.
-
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