Creative PnP Configuration Manager Readme File
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This file contains important information regarding the
installation of 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. Installing CTCM and CTCU in DOS/Windows 3.x
   3. Updating DOS drivers/applications
   4. Configuring Your Card in Windows 95 DOS Mode
   5. If You Have Another Configuration Manager
   6. If You Have Legacy Cards In Your System
   7. 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 MANUAL.TXT


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.

   If you want to upgrade your current CTCM package for Windows 95 
   with our latest release, you can also follow the steps below to 
   configure your Creative PnP 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. INSTALLING CTCM and CTCU in DOS/WINDOWS 3.X

   To install CTCM and CTCU in DOS/Windows 3.x, you just need to
   run INSTALL at the command prompt and follow the instructions
   on the screen to complete the installation.

   After the CTCM installation, you may need to update your DOS
   drivers or applications. Please refer to section 3 on updating
   DOS drivers/applications.


3. UPDATING DOS DRIVERS/APPLICATIONS

   If you have Creative Audio drivers and Creative IDE CD-ROM
   drivers then you need to update them with newer versions to
   support CTCM, otherwise you don't need to update any of the
   files.

   You need to do this only after installing CTCM and CTCU.

   The following files need to be updated :

   1. CTSB16.SYS
   2. VIBRA16.SYS
   3. DIAGNOSE.EXE
   4. CT3DSE.EXE
   5. SBIDE.SYS

   3.1 Updating CTSB16.SYS or VIBRA16.SYS

       You need to update these files to your <C:\SOUND>\DRV
       directory. The default directory for <C:\SOUND> is either
       SB16 or VIBRA16. You can check your SOUND directory by
       doing the following steps:

           1. Type SET on the command prompt
           2. Your SOUND directory is specified as SOUND=<C:\SOUND>

       You need to copy these files to the <C:\SOUND>\DRV directory

   3.2 Updating DIAGNOSE.EXE and CT3DSE.EXE

       If you have any of these files or both, then you need to
       update them with the newer version to support CTCM.

       These two files are located in your <C:\SOUND> directory.
       Please refer to section 2.1 on how to check your SOUND
       directory

       You need to copy these files to the <C:\SOUND> directory

   3.3 Updating SBIDE.SYS

       If you have Creative CDROM driver, then you need to update
       the driver with the newer version to support CTCM

       This file is located in your <C:\SBCD> directory.
       The default directory for <C:\SBCD> is SBCD directory.

       You may have to path it to the directory where you stored
       the CDROM driver if it has been changed when you installed
       it.

       After copying the driver to the specified directory, you
       need to change the setting in your CONFIG.SYS as follows:

           DEVICE=<C:\SBCD>\SBIDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 <other parameters>
       to
           DEVICE=<C:\SBCD>\SBIDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 /N /P:1E8,11,3EE <other parameters>

       NOTE: Please take note of the additional switches /N.


4. 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.


5. 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.
   

6. 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.


7. 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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