Creative AWE64 User Manual - Page 83
Why Use CTCM and CTCU?, Limitations of CTCM and CTCU
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Why Use CTCM and CTCU? There are several reasons why we offer CTCM and CTCU: 1. CTCM provides a consistent method for configuring all Creative PnP cards. It works with or without PnP BIOS or ICM. If your PnP BIOS or ICM has already configured your PnP card(s), CTCM will simply retain those settings. 2. If the PnP BIOS or ICM did not configure your Creative PnP cards properly, due to incompatibility problems similar to those mentioned in the section "PnP in DOS/Windows 3.1x" in page 14, CTCM may be able to allocate resources to these cards. 3. You need not reboot your system after using CTCU to change Creative PnP card settings, if you do not have any DOS device drivers (e.g., SBIDE.SYS or CTSB16.SYS) loaded. You only need to run CTCM to reconfigure the card. This is possible because CTCM can be activated from the DOS prompt, unlike ICM. Limitations of CTCM and CTCU If you use a non-PnP operating system like DOS/Windows 3.1x and do not have a PnP BIOS or ICM, your PnP card works like a software-configurable card. In such an environment, CTCM needs to know which resources have been reserved by all the legacy and PnP cards, and system devices in your system before it can allocate conflict-free resources to your new Creative PnP card. CTCM can get the resource settings of PnP cards and system devices from the PnP cards and BIOS. But you need to use CTCU to enter the resource settings of all the legacy cards in your PC, and then run CTCM to configure your Creative PnP card. You may still encounter hardware conflicts if the resource settings specified through CTCU are incomplete or wrong. If this happens, use CTCU to select a different group of resources for the Creative PnP card that caused the conflict. You may need to try a few combinations until you find one that works. This can be tedious, but it is easier than the legacy way of changing dip switches or jumpers. 16