IRQ's

[Bartman]

Ok guys am new here, so call me stupid :-),
How do you disable the PS2 mouse and keyboard to gain extra IRQ's?. The reason is I am totaly USB in them departments.

Many Thanks

Bartman :rolleyes:

[MacGyver]

When your computer boots, go into the BIOS setup (try pressing DEL) and look for an option in there for "Use PS/2 Mouse" or "Reserve IRQ 12" and turn them to off or auto. Probably in "PNP setups"

You don't have to do anything in Windows, it will recognize the extra IRQ is available and use it as necessary.

[Bartman]

Thanks MacGuver, PS/2 Mouse Gone, But still have Standard 101/102 Keyboard taking up IRQ 1, The Keyboard I use is a USB one, is there a way of turning this off this aswell :confused:

Many Thanks

Bartman

[Mr_Miyagi]

the answer to your last question, according to microsoft is NO YOU CANNOT:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q183/3/18.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=usb%20keyboard&rnk=9&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=W98

[http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi]

I've found that most devices will not accept normally occupied IRQ's such as 1 or 6.

For a while, I was using an LS-120 drive, so I had the floppy controller disabled, but NOTHING would move into IRQ 6.

[Bartman]

Thanks guys/gals thats put the nail in that coffin :eek:


Bartman :)

[TRICKPLAYER]

Assuming you are not using them, turn off com and parallel port in bios also, their irq's will be released.