====================================================================== ====================================================================== WARNING : This driver package is for use ONLY with Intel and Intel compatible x86 architectures. ====================================================================== ====================================================================== TABLE OF CONTENTS ----------------- I. Removing Previously Installed Creative Drivers II. Installing Creative Plug-n-Play Audio Cards on Windows NT 4.0 Without Service Pack 3 Installed III. Installing Creative Plug-n-Play Audio Cards on Windows NT 4.0 With Service Pack 3 Installed A. Extracting Service Pack 3 Files B. Installing New Drivers C. Upgrading Drivers IV. Installing Creative Legacy Audio Cards on Windows NT 4.0 V. Installing AWE Control Panel (for SB32/AWE32/AWE64/AWE64G only) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I. REMOVING PREVIOUSLY INSTALLED CREATIVE DRIVERS ============================================== 1. Log on to your computer as an Administrator. 2. Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. 3. Double-click the Multimedia icon. 4. On the Devices tab, remove entries with the term "Creative" from under Audio Devices and MIDI Devices And Instruments. These are the previously installed Sound Blaster drivers. NOTE: Do Not Remove the MIDI for Low Level Wave, MIDI, and AUX support listed under MIDI Devices and Instruments. 5. Restart your computer when prompted. ====================================================================== II. INSTALLING CREATIVE PLUG-N-PLAY AUDIO CARDS ON WINDOWS NT 4.0 WITHOUT SERVICE PACK 3 INSTALLED ============================================================= 1. Please remove all previously installed Creative drivers before beginning the installation. (See Part I for instructions) 2. Make sure you have the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 CD in the CDROM drive (). 3. Open Windows NT Explorer. Go to \DRVLIB\PNPISA\X86. 4. Right click on PNPISA.INF and select Install (if you don't see this file, click View \ Options \ View \ and select "Show all Files" and unselect "Hide extensions for known file types"). 5. Restart your computer when prompted. 6. Log on to your computer as an Administrator. 7. You should see a series of "New Hardware Found" dialog boxes. If you do not, minimize all the open windows on the desktop or refer to Known Issues at the end of this section. You should then be prompted to install drivers for several functions on your card such as (sequence may differ slightly): For Creative Sound Blaster <16/32/64> Plug and Play (Audio) (applicable for SB16, SB32, AWE32, and AWE64 cards): ------------------------------------------------------------------ a) Choose "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer". b) Enter the path to the contents of AWENT40.EXE. (i.e. C:\TEMP) c) Select OK on the Select Device screen. d) If no resources are given select "Set Configuration Manually". e) If there are conflicting devices at the bottom of the screen, resolve them first by selecting basic configuration 0001, then highlight the offending setting in the Resource Settings window. Click on Change Setting, and select a setting that does not conflict with another device. Select OK when finished. Repeat for any settings that show a conflict. For Microsoft Joystick Port Enabler (May say "Creative Sound Blaster <16/32/64> Plug and Play (Game)") (applicable for all Creative cards): ------------------------------------------------------------------ a) Choose "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer". b) Enter the path \DRVLIB\AUDIO\SBPNP\i386. c) Select OK on the Select Device screen. d) If no resources are given select "Set Configuration Manually". e) If there are conflicting devices at the bottom of the screen, resolve them first by selecting basic configuration 0001, then highlight the offending setting in the Resource Settings window. Click on Change Setting, and select a setting that does not conflict with another device. Select OK when finished. Repeat for any settings that show a conflict. For Creative Advanced Wave Effects Synthesis for AWE 32 (applicable for SB32, AWE32, and AWE64 cards): ------------------------------------------------------------------ a) Choose "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer". b) Enter the path to the contents of AWENT40.EXE. (i.e. C:\TEMP) c) Select OK on the Select Device screen. d) If no resources are given select "Set Configuration Manually". e) If there are conflicting devices at the bottom of the screen, resolve them first by selecting a basic configuration that does not conflict with another device. Select OK when finished. For Creative 3D Stereo Enhancement Technology (applicable for SB16, SB32, AWE32, and AWE64 cards): ------------------------------------------------------------------ Select "Windows NT default driver". For IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller (applicable for SB16, SB32, AWE32, and AWE64 IDE cards): ------------------------------------------------------------------ Select "Do not install a driver (Windows NT will not prompt you again)". 8. Restart your computer when prompted. * Your Sound Blaster card should be working properly at this point. If you need to change the resources that your card is using, open the Multimedia Control Panel applet, select the "Devices" tab, select "Properties" for the Sound Blaster driver, and click on the "Settings" button. This will bring up the same resource-picking dialog that was invoked when installing the device. Known issues ------------ - If you have problems setting up your Sound Blaster PnP card and you have a PnP BIOS on your computer, you may have to toggle the setting in the CMOS (enable PnP or disable PnP). Consult your computer manual or the manufacturer for information on toggling the PnP on your BIOS. - You can install only one Sound Blaster audio card on your computer. ====================================================================== III. INSTALLING CREATIVE PLUG-N-PLAY AUDIO CARDS ON WINDOWS NT 4.0 WITH SERVICE PACK 3 INSTALLED ============================================================= A. EXTRACTING SERVICE PACK 3 FILES (If not installed from CD) 1. From Command Prompt, go to the directory which contains the downloaded NT Service Pack 3 installation file, NT4SP3_I.EXE. (i.e. C:\SERPAK) 2. Extract the Service Pack 3 files (minimum 55 MB free hard disk space required) by typing the following command: C:\SERPAK\NT4SP3_I /X Where C:\SERPAK is the directory containing the downloaded Service Pack 3 installation file. During extraction, you will be prompted for a temporary directory to extract the files to. (i.e. C:\SP3) (The /X switch extracts the files to a separate directory without automaticly installing any of the SP3 drivers.) B. INSTALLING NEW DRIVERS (No previous Creative drivers installed) 1. Make sure you have the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 CD in the CDROM drive (). 2. Open Windows NT Explorer. Go to \DRVLIB\PNPISA\X86. 3. Right click on PNPISA.INF and select Install (if you don't see this file, click View \ Options \ View \ and select "Show all Files" and unselect "Hide extensions for known file types"). 4. Restart your computer when prompted. 5. Log on to your computer as an Administrator. You should see a series of "Insert Service Pack CD" dialog boxes. ---------------------------------------------------------------- If Service Pack 3 was installed from CD, then insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive and click on OK. If prompted, enter the path to the Service Pack directory on the CD. (i.e. \i386) Repeat until prompted to reboot the computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------- If Service Pack 3 was not installed from CD, then click OK. When prompted provide the path to the directory where you expanded the Service Pack 3 file. (i.e. C:\SP3) Repeat until prompted to reboot the computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Restart your computer when prompted. * You may now follow the next section on upgrading drivers to allow full duplex. C. UPGRADING DRIVERS (Previous Creative drivers installed) 1. Remove all previously installed Creative drivers. (See Part I for instructions) 2. Restart your computer when prompted. 3. Log on to your computer as an Administrator. You should see a series of "New Hardware Found" dialog boxes. 4. At the "New Hardware Found" dialog box, click the No button. 5. At the "Files Needed" dialog box where you are prompted to insert the Service Pack CD-ROM, click the Cancel button. 6. Click the Start button on the taskbar, point to Programs, and then click Command Prompt. Change to the directory containing the contents of AWENT40.EXE. (i.e. C:\TEMP) 7. If Service Pack 3 has been installed from CD, please remove the Windows NT CD from the CD-ROM drive, insert the Service Pack 3 CD and run the following command \i386\DEVPRE DEVUPD.INF If Service Pack 3 was installed from the downloaded NT Service Pack 3 installation file, run the following command C:\SP3\DEVPRE DEVUPD.INF Where C:\SP3 is the directory containing the extracted Service Pack 3 files. 8. If asked to replace current drivers with those provided by Creative, click Yes. 9. Restart NT if prompted. 10. If no resources are given select "Set Configuration Manually". 11. If there are conflicting devices at the bottom of the screen, resolve them first by selecting Basic Configuration 0001, then highlight the offending setting in the Resource Settings window. Click on Change Setting, and select a setting that does not conflict with another device. Select OK when finished. Repeat for any settings that show a conflict. 12. If "No conflicts" appears in the Conflicting Device List, click on the OK button. 13. If your Joystick Port is not detected here it will be detected after restarting. When prompted for the Joystick Port drivers browse to the directory where you installed the Service Pack 3 e.g. C:\SP3. 14. Restart your computer when prompted. * Your Sound Blaster card should be working properly at this point. If you need to change the resources that your card is using, open the Multimedia Control Panel applet, select the "Devices" tab, select "Properties" for the Sound Blaster driver, and click on the "Settings" button. This will bring up the same resource-picking dialog that was invoked when installing the device. ====================================================================== IV. INSTALLING CREATIVE LEGACY AUDIO CARDS ON WINDOWS NT 4.0 ======================================================== 1. Please remove all previously installed Creative drivers before beginning the installation. (See Part I for instructions) 2. Log on to your computer as an Administrator. 3. Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. 4. Double-click the Multimedia icon. 5. Click the Add button. 6. In the List Of Drivers box on the Add dialog box, click Unlisted Or Updated Driver, and click the OK button. 7. Enter the path to the contents of AWENT40.EXE. (i.e. C:\TEMP) 8. In the Add Unlisted Or Updated Driver dialog box, click Creative Sound Blaster 16, and then click the OK button. 9. Click the New button. 10. When prompted, select the Sound Blaster hardware settings such as base I/O address, DMA, IRQ and MPU-401 port settings. All the .SYS files will be copied into the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS directory. The .ACV and .DLL files will be copied into the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory. 11. At the end of the installation, you will be asked to restart your computer. * If your card is an SB16, click the Restart Now button. Your installation ends here. * If your card is an AWE32 or an SB32 card, click the Don't Restart Now button. 12. Repeat steps 5 to 7. 13. In the Add Unlisted Or Updated Driver dialog box, click Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 MIDI Synth, and then click the OK button. 14. Repeat steps 9 to 10. 15. Restart your computer when prompted. * Your Sound Blaster card should be working properly at this point. If you need to change the resources that your card is using, open the Multimedia Control Panel applet, select the "Devices" tab, select "Properties" for the Sound Blaster driver, and click on the "Settings" button. This will bring up the same resource-picking dialog that was invoked when installing the device. ====================================================================== V. Installing AWE Control Panel (for SB32/AWE32/AWE64/AWE64G only) ====================================================================== 1. Create a directory in your system. You can use any directory name of your choice, e.g. c:\awe32cp 2. Copy the following files into the directory you have created: - AWECP32.EXE AWE Control Panel application. - AWECP.HLP AWE Control Panel help file. - AWECP.CNT AWE Control Panel help contents page. - AWE32RES.DLL AWE resource DLL. - CTRES32.DLL Creative resource DLL 3. Copy the following files into the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\ directory: - AWEMAN.DLL - AWEMAN32.DLL Note : You may want to create shortcut for AWE Control Panel. a. Place the mouse cursor at empty space on the desktop. b. Click the right mouse button c. Select "New | Shortcut | Browse" d. Go to directory that you have created for AWE Control Panel and select AWECP32.EXE. Follow by "Next | Finish". Shortcut to AWE Control Panel will be created at desktop.