First post, by crazyzed
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I’m struggling with a Roland SCP-55 card that I bought a while ago but never got working.
I first tried it in my Acer TM330 running Windows ME. Windows detects the card and I point Windows to the drivers. As soon as the drivers has been loaded and the sound for new hardware has played, I get a Blue Screen of death. No way to recover, reboot is necessary.
I have the original floppy from Roland, I have also tried a downloaded version.
Next I tried it in my Dell Inspiron 8100 running Windows 98SE.
Same thing, as soon as the drivers has been installed: Blue Screen.
Then I tried it in my Acer TM312t running Windows 98SE.
Same thing: Blue Screen.
Since the drivers for SCP-55 is made for Windows 95 I wanted to try that.
Installed Windows 95 ORS2 on my TM330. But unfortunately, same thing: Blue Screen.
Next I wanted to try it in DOS, thinking that perhaps I have hardware conflicts with everything running in a Windows environment.
Created a DOS 6.22 boot floppy containing the SCP-55 drivers, and CardSoft 3.1.
Config.sys device=a:\cardsoft\SS365LP.EXE rem device=a:\cardsoft\SS365SL.EXE rem device=a:\cardsoft\SSCIRRUS.EXE rem device=a […]
Config.sys
device=a:\cardsoft\SS365LP.EXE
rem device=a:\cardsoft\SS365SL.EXE
rem device=a:\cardsoft\SSCIRRUS.EXE
rem device=a:\cardsoft\SSDBOOK.EXE
rem device=a:\cardsoft\SSIBM720.EXE
rem device=a:\cardsoft\SSVADEM.EXE
rem device=a:\cardsoft\SSVLSI.EXE
device=a:\cardsoft\CS.EXE
device=a:\cardsoft\CSALLOC.EXE c:\cardsoft\CSALLOC.INI
DEVICE=A:\SCP\SCPENA.EXE
Tried different PCMCIA drivers and found 2 or 3 that seemed to work with my Inspiron 8100. But when SCPENA.EXE is loaded I only get:
SCP55 Enabler Ver.1.02 95/10/03 (c)Roland Corp. is now loaded.
With a blinking cursor at the end, it just waits and I never get to the prompt.
Tried the floppy on my TM330 and again found PCMCIA drivers that seemed to work. But same thing:
SCP55 Enabler Ver.1.02 95/10/03 (c)Roland Corp. is now loaded.
With a blinking cursor at the end.
Next I tried an old floppy for my TM312t that I know for a fact has working PCMCIA drivers on it. I finally get:
SCP55 Enabler Ver.1.02 95/10/03 (c)Roland Corp. is now loaded. SCP-55 Card Service Ready SystemSoft CS APM Version 1.08 Copyrigh […]
SCP55 Enabler Ver.1.02 95/10/03 (c)Roland Corp. is now loaded.
SCP-55 Card Service Ready
SystemSoft CS APM Version 1.08
Copyright 1993-1994 SystemSoft Corp. All Rights Reserved
A: \
Wow, eager to try out my SCP-55 I start to configure Duke3D only to find that It can’t find any MPU-401 on that address. Tried all addresses but all failed.
Went back to prompt and ran SCPENA.EXE again and got this:
SCP55 Enabler Ver.1.02 95/10/03 (c)Roland Corp. is already installed. >> Current status << Socket#FF IRQ#00 I/O Port Address 000 […]
SCP55 Enabler Ver.1.02 95/10/03 (c)Roland Corp. is already installed.
>> Current status <<
Socket#FF
IRQ#00
I/O Port Address 0000h
Why is this? What could be going on with this card?
Is there anyway of setting resources manually in DOS?
I also wonder about the files from Roland:
Install.exe : Does nothing, just ends up with a blinking cursor but never returns to prompt. What is it supposed to install?
Scp-55.exe : Does nothing, just ends up with a blinking cursor but never returns to prompt. What is this file for?
Scp55cnt.exe : Must be run from Windows but since I don’t have the SCP55 working in windows I just get an error box saying: “A device attached to the system is not functioning.” With an OK button.
What is this file for?