SUBJECT:

It keeps coming up with the PnP device detected menu under Windows NT

QUESTION:

I'm installing an NDC ISA PnP card on our Windows NT. It keeps coming up with the PnP device detected menu and asking for a driver, each time I reboot, even though the driver is
installed properly. Is there a way to disable the PnP and just fix the IO port and IRQ or must I stop the NT PnP service?

ANSWER:

Our driver's installation way doesn't support the add-on PnP service of the NT4.0. But you can disable the PnP feature of our NDC ISA card and just assign a set of IO port and IRQ to
the card by using the utility, UTIL.EXE, under DOS environment.

Please note that most PCs in the market can run our UTIL.EXE, not all PCs. If you cannot run the UTIL.EXE on some PC, please try to use another PC machine to configure the NDC ISA card to let it become 'Non-PnP' mode and then relocate it on the PC machine which you like
to run the NT4.0 OS.

And as we know, amid ISA PnP interface cards, it seems that only the Creative Sound Blaster series sound cards support this feature, but not very well (These sound cards cannot work in all functions like they are in Windows 9x, real PnP). We don't think it is a good idea to support the PnP service under NT4.0, which PnP sub-system is not good enough. The Windows 2000 will support more perfectly the PnP function and all our wireless LAN products support it in Windows 2000 system.