Creative PnP Configuration Manager Readme File ============================================== 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 \DRV directory. The default directory for 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= You need to copy these files to the \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 directory. Please refer to section 2.1 on how to check your SOUND directory You need to copy these files to the 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 directory. The default directory for 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=\SBIDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 to DEVICE=\SBIDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 /N /P:1E8,11,3EE 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: ----- CTCU.EXE will successfully run in silent mode even if SHARE.EXE is loaded. ******** END OF README.TXT ********