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Thread ID: 41017 2003-12-27 00:29:00 Enabling USB port Joe Davies (831) Press F1
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203444 2003-12-27 00:29:00 Dear Friends,

I have an old Celeron 466 system running ME. My techie brother pointed out there is a USB option on the motherboard, all I need is a cable with a connector and to enable the option in the BIOS.

Trouble is, when I enable the option in the BIOS, it wipes out my sound card - I can only get these little beeps out of it.

Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong?

Joe Davies
Joe Davies (831)
203445 2003-12-27 01:12:00 My guess would be that there is an IRQ conflict between the two. If so you should be able to sort it out in the bios. mikebartnz (21)
203446 2003-12-27 01:27:00 Agreed. It might be that the BIOS allocates some resources to the USB interface, regardless of whether they have been previously allocated to, say, a sound card by the plug and pray system. ;-)

Try removing the soundcard in the hardware manager, then letting it get installed again. That might fix the conflicts. (You should be able to see the yellow warning in hardware manager if we are right).
Graham L (2)
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