IRQ Problems or something else?

[keinz]

I run 333 p2 on Windows Millenium. For some reasons a lot of my irq's are being shared. Now I dont know if thats the problem that's causing my computer to show continous errors, what could be the problem?

[Cave_Dweller]

Sharing IRQs is normal. Can you be more specific about the problem you are experiencing? Error messages, Application name and version, etc.....

[Radical Dreamer]

If you have any free just make whatever is sharing..not share

[keinz]

Im getting a <unknown> error. And when I see details, it says stack dump

[condor]

if your system is using IRQ sharing - it's probably using ACPI.


ACPI works well only when 100% of the hardware is compliant.

- disable ACPI in your BIOS..

[keinz]

how do i do that?

[Darren Wilson]

To remove ACPI from ME or 98 folow the below

Make a folder on your drive called UpdateDrivers. Make sub folders in it for you main devices that you know need updated or maker specific drivers.Expand the driver's packages into them.You can now point PnP to these to install your drivers much faster than swapping Cdroms

Start/run and type regedit and press ok.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum and remove the Enum folder
Re-boot and ignore/cancel all driver install prompts
Control panel/Add New Hardware/Next/Next/NO/Next/System Devices/Next/highlight(standard system devices in the left pane and scroll to Plug in and Play BIOS(fail safe)in the right hand pane and ok it apply it and let the system re-detect your hardware and point it to the correct drivers


You will need to re-install your Dial Up Networking components from the control Panel and may have to re make your DUN connections but to help ease this drag and drop your DUN connectoids onto the desktop because in Win98 and later this 1st one of each is special and will save your Dial Up Networking settings and you can drop them back into your Dial Up Networking(DUN) folder but you may still have to right click on the real DUN connectoid and point it to your modem/isdn/cable modem as there may now be a duplicate/bogus entry in there.

You may also have to go into the Device Manager and re-enable the DMA mode on your Hard drive drive/s.Important!You should re-install the Via AGP update with the 4 in 1 package (if applicable)

If you have any problems with the described method and lose any Device Manager settings you can just use a win98 boot disk and re-run the window's setup.exe (after renaming the win.com file to win.old) over itself but if you do un-install any updated Internet Explorer/Outlook Express you have added before you do.You won't lose anything by doing this.

If any program or device doesn't work just remove the program and re-install it and update your other device drivers and re-install the 4 in 1 package from Via as per above and continue to use F8 bootup/Safemode to check for duplicate/misplaced drivers.

If this method fails you can re-run the windows setup.exe over itself or clean re-install without much data loss by using the setup /p i command line to rerun the setup.

Hope this helps. Also check your BIOS for anything that states ACPI and disable it if the option is there.

[keinz]

Thanks, that was a big help!
Is there any program that makes it easier to change irq's from windows since some programs can only be changed at bootup?