hello, gotta system here that won't boot when any ISA cards are installed. i put a sound card and a 2nd lpt port in it and when you power it on the system does nothing. no screen, no beeps. it accesses the hard drive right when you turn it on, but never goes any further.

now if i take the isa cards out it boots just fine.

i did have these isa cards installed and one day it suddenly quit booting, and that's when i removed all the isa cards and it would boot. i can't think of any changes i made from the time it worked, to the time it quit working.

one isa card in any isa slot will keep the system from booting.

OS: Windows Me (Clean Install)
CPU: Pentium 200 MHz w/ MMX
RAM: 96 MB (SIMMS)

Drives:
1. Primary Master - WD 2G
2. Primary Slave - Seagate 4G
3. Secondary Master - Creative 8432 CDRW
4 Secondary Slave - Mitsumi 16X CD-ROM

PCI Cards Installed (3 PCI Slots):
1. Video - S3 ViRGE (4MB)
2. 3Com 10/100 TX NIC
3. U.S. Robotics 56K Fax

ISA Cards That Won't Work (that i have) (4 ISA Slots):
1. Creative Labs Sound Card - Model CT4520
2. LPT port

thanks.