>I just installed NT4 workstation on my new laptop, and got SP5 loaded. I seem to have an IRQ conflict but have no idea what to do about it :(
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>When I start it up Service Manager tells me
>"atleast one service failed to start, see Event Viewer for details"
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>The even viewer shows a mess of stop events on Cdrom for each time I restart. Event Detail says "The device \Device\CdRom0 has a bad block". It's actually a dvd, and plays both CDs and DVDs just fine.
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>I'm also getting a warning event on Serial, the detail on that says "Not enough resources were available for the driver"
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>It also seems to recognize the modem just fine in control panel, but when I try to setup dialup networking to connect to my ISP, as soon as my modem makes connection I get the blue screen of death memory dump, and the top of the screen says something about IRQ problem.
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>This is my first NT install, I'm at a loss.

Probably not much help, but have you tried a complete reinstall? On my NT test machine, the first install had all kinds of problems. We reinstalled from scratch, and most of the problems were fixed.