Unable to open a socket

[desfam1]

Hello,
I was messing around with my IRQ settings (PCI) in my BIOS in order to get my sound card working. I noticed that my Ethernet card and my sound card used the same IRQ, so I thought that may be a conflict, so I changed the IRQ to different setings. Now my computer says

Unable to create a socket

What does this mean? any ideas on how I can get back on track?

Jim

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: desfam1
Hello,
I was messing around with my IRQ settings (PCI) in my BIOS in order to get my sound card working. I noticed that my Ethernet card and my sound card used the same IRQ, so I thought that may be a conflict, so I changed the IRQ to different setings. Now my computer says

Unable to create a socket

What does this mean? any ideas on how I can get back on track?

Jim

It's referring to a network socket, which is an object used to instantiate a network connection. It's completely virtual, it's not a physical device.

So your network card cannot operate on the IRQ you chose. You'll have to change it until it does. Also, IRQ sharing is common these days, so that's probably not a problem. What operating system are you running? If it's Windows 2K/XP, you should rarely, if ever, have to change IRQ settings.

Have you had this problem all along, or just once you had changed your IRQ settings? This problem would most likely have occurred any time you accessed the Internet, but I can't say for sure because I don't know your complete situation or what application reported this problem.

 

[desfam1]

I am running Win 98SE
No this problem came along after I messed around with the IRQ settings in the BIOS
My MS DOS game application gave this error. For this game I need both the ethernet card + the soundcard for my sounds and gameport

 

[helpmeout]

Put things back like they were, make sure onboard sound is disabled or uninstalled, it will interfere with a card.