Here's our Windows NT Tip for.. September 14, 1999
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Got a New Sound Card?
I know someone who recently installed a new Sound Blaster Plug and Play card. Getting Windows NT 4.0 to use the new card was a more painful operation than we had expected. Here's how to remove the pain and still get the card installed.

Make sure you have SP3 (or higher) installed. If it isn't, you'll need to install it first. With SP3 (or higher) installed, click Start, Settings, Control Panel. When Control Panel opens, double-click the Multimedia icon. Click the Devices tab and remove the current drivers. Close Multimedia (and Control Panel, too, if you like).

Put your Windows NT 4.0 CD into the CD-ROM drive and locate Pnpisa.inf (you'll find it in \Drvlib\Pnpisa\x86). Right-click the INF file and choose Install. Now, restart the computer.

When the computer restarts, you'll get a New Hardware Found message. Insert your Creative Labs disc (or floppy) and proceed from there.