EMM386

I am trying to install a SCSI C ard to operate a scanner using WIN 98SE. When I out the card in the PCI slot and reboot I get an indictaion that EMM386 can not function correctly. It does this with every PCI slot. Any suggestiong as to how to resolve this?
Thanks Tony

Which card, make/model? Did it come with the scanner and is it =
required? What make/model scanner? What is the exact "indication" you =
get?

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Brian A.

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"Tony" wrote in message =
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I am trying to install a SCSI C ard to operate a scanner using WIN =
98SE. When I out the card in the PCI slot and reboot I get an indictaion =
that EMM386 can not function correctly. It does this with every PCI =
slot. Any suggestiong as to how to resolve this?
Thanks Tony

Not sure what "When I out the card" is about.

No dos driver is needed for scsi card in a windows environment if that's
what you did. Install the windows driver for the scsi card after you plug
in the scsi card and boot into windows. Remove the dos driver if you
installed one. Don't connect anything to the scsi card until its installed
in windows without protest from windows.

Any plug in card is not of USB install nature. You have to install it with
the PC off, preferrably with AC power removed from the PC as well.

If you don't have a fully compliant ACPI motherboard, you need to go by the
bios irq assignments, not windows. Use a slot that assigns an exclusive
(nothing else using that irq) to the slot you're using. Only a few irqs can
be used by typical scsi interface cards, 10, 11, and 15 is the norm per the
bios display of irq usage in this case. This is critical for SCSI or
pseudo-SCSI (add-on ide)interface cards.

Most scsi scanners are setup to work as device 6 from the factory. You have
to be sure its terminated as well as the scsi card. There are active and
passive scsi terminators for the scsi cable, active is preferred. Some
terminators are built-in to the scsi device

This is all the general scsi install info I can give you. As Brian
indicates, it would be certainly helpful in diagnosing your problem if you
gave more info on scanner and its interface card.

Some scanner makers provide a scsi card that is not of true scsi nature. If
so, all bets above are off.
"Tony" wrote in message
...
I am trying to install a SCSI C ard to operate a scanner using WIN 98SE.
When I out the card in the PCI slot and reboot I get an indictaion that
EMM386 can not function correctly. It does this with every PCI slot. Any
suggestiong as to how to resolve this?
Thanks Tony