If you experience shutdown problems after installing the Sound Card, please do
not assume that the board is defective. Most likely there is a conflict with
another device in the system that Windows is unable to detect and report. 

To correct the problem, please follow these steps:

  *  Make sure the old sound card (if any) was uninstalled and removed. 
     If it is built into the motherboard, then the drivers need to be removed
     and the built on card needs to be disabled (usually in the BIOS) so that
     it does get redetected by the Operating System. Please contact the 
     computer or motherboard manufacturer to do this.

  *  Check if your modem has sound card features. If it does, chances are 
     that the modem "voice" features are conflicting with the Catalina. 
     Try disabling the driver for the modem and if Windows shuts down 
     properly, then you know that is the problem. You can try getting the 
     Catalina and the Modem on different IRQs by installing one of the two
     in a different PCI slot. 

  *  If you are running 2000 or XP, ACPI may prevent this. You may need to 
     use a different modem without sound card features on it, or just use 
     BroadBand which is the way of the future.
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