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Lexmark 1020 printer causes vsndsys.386 to be lost at startup
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Old (very old!) Zeos computer OS: Win 98SE Printer: Lexmark 1020 Color Jet Sound Card: Turtle Beach Monte Carlo 929 (I think, but could be 928) Situation: This computer was passed on to me by a neighbour, and I have passed it on to my mother. I don't have the original sound card installation disks though these are provided on the TB website. My mother lives 3 hours drive away so I only see this computer from time to time - can't troubleshoot on the spot, so appreciate as much info as possible to try alternative solutions on next visit. Problem: I can install the sound card drivers and have the sound work fine. I installed the printer and it works fine. However it appears that each time the printer is used that the next Windows restart brings up the "vsndsys.386 not found" error message, which has to be clicked "OK" 3 times to close and bring up normal windows desktop, which is then functional, including the printer - only the sound is lost. If I then reinstall the sound card drivers again, all is well again with the sound until the printer is again used. I don't think it's a IRQ-type conflict, though I can't really be sure. In the BIOS, the LPT printer port is set to IRQ 7. However I don't really know what IRQ it is using in Windows as in the IRQ table, there is no IRQ entry for the LPT port and IRQ 5 and 7 are both shown as free. The sound card has 3 modes of operation: Sound Blaster Pro in DOS, which uses IRQ 5, Windows Sound System (WSS mode) for DOS, which uses IRQ 11 and Windows operation - and again in the Windows IRQ table, there is no entry for the sound card. So I can't really tell what is happening between the LPT and the sound card in windows. I can't understand why the Windows IRQ table is not reporting entries for these things??? !!! Kinda makes it hard to change IRQs if needed. I'm wondering if it's more like something to do with the fact that for the sound card, there should be a line device=vsndsys.386 under the [386 enhanced] section of the system.ini file and perhaps when the printer is deployed it has as part of it's intialisation a string that takes out this line from system.ini.....? So that when the computer next starts up it registers it as missing? Anyone with an inkling about this....your help would be greatly appreciated as I want my Mum to be able to use both the printer and the sound without having to worry about this error message all the time. |
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