Originally posted by NooNoo
Right you have two choices - play the slot shuffle, each slot has an irq - but it shares with something always... check your motherboard manual for what shares with what.

2nd choice, reinstall 2k and press f5 when it says press f6 to load scsi and choose standard hal. This will effectively tell win2k to bypass acpi and its attendant irq sharing. You will then be able to set irqs from the bios if the board allows it or 2k should then allow you to change the irqs for the devices.
Mostly isn't there usually one slot that doesn't share ? ... though that'd of course depend on motherboard ... experience tells me usually slot 1 nearet agp isn't shared - if you have an agp card that's no good as you can't generally use it then, but also often the last slot is also unique ... only three slots can share anyway under acpi (so more slots is more chance of having a unique one).

My research of whether a machine could change irq assignments would be to open bios ... & look for a screen like this ...


If you can't see something like that you can't change 'em in bios ... other than swapping slots ...

In Noo's method above you also want to diable acpi in bios before re-running setup ? methinks ? ...