Creative PnP Configuration Manager Readme File
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This file contains important information regarding the installation
of Creative Plug and Play (PnP) cards using 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 in Windows 95
   2. Configuring Your Card in Windows 95 DOS Mode
   3. If You Have Another Configuration Manager
   4. If You Have Legacy Cards In Your System
   5. 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 your manual
      or "DOS/Windows 3.x & Windows 95 DOS Mode Plug and Play
      Installation Tips" leaflet.


1. INSTALLING CTCM IN WINDOWS 95

   If you have just upgraded your operating system from DOS/Windows 3.x 
   to Windows 95, but do not have any Windows 95 software for your 
   Creative PnP cards, follow the steps below to configure these cards 
   properly:

   1. Use your Windows Explorer to look for a CTCM.INF file in your 
      CTCM directory.  
   2. Right-click on the file and select Install from the shortcut menu 
      that appears.
      This program will copy some drivers into your system to configure 
      your PnP cards in MS-DOS Mode.  It will also convert into remarks 
      all CTCM/CTCU statements in your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files 
      as Windows 95 will take care of all PnP configurations in its
      Windows and DOS box environments.


2. 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.


3. 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.
   

4. 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.


5. 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:
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   CTCU.EXE will successfully run in silent mode even if SHARE.EXE is
   loaded.


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