[RESOLVED] IRQ Sharing

[Dougal]

Can anyone out there please help me!

I have a very unusual irq problem, in the ESCD table @ boot all device are listed on unique IRQs, but when in win2k under resources in computer manager it tells me everythings on 11 (SCSI, Graphics, USB, Modem. I have tried every posible combination of settings in the PNP/PCI setup and varying different driver versions, i have also tried the system with just the SCSI & VGA but there still both on 11
what am i doing wrong

System spec:
Abit KT7A-Raid
AMD Tbird 1Ghz
256MB
Adaptec 29160 (2.57.2 bios)
Nvidia Geforce2 32DDR
SB 256 Live
Diamond internal Supra 56

Thanks
Dougal

[wbatten]

This is normal, it mainly uses IRQ19 though


Win2K over rides Bios PCI settings, trying to change or assign IRQ for PCI devices in Bios is futile, along as Win2K is setup-using ACPI

-wayne


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[Darren Wilson]

Goto Device Manager

Double Click COMPUTER

Double Click Advanced Configuration & Power Interface Computer

Click the Driver Tab

Click Change or Update driver

Select from a list od Drivers

Show all drivers

Select Standard PC

Click next

Reboot

Windows will redetect your hardware and assign the IRQ's as set by the BIOS

Only drawback is that you will need to power off manually after this, but what is the press of a button?

Also make sure that you have IRQ5 set to Legacy/ISA in the BIOS as the SB Live's Legacy support can interfere with the Highpoint controller if you don't.


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[This message has been edited by Darren Wilson (edited March 04, 2001).]

[Dougal]

I tried what u sugested and rebooted "bang" cannot find NTOSKRNL right at the start of the boot, couldn't go in in safe or last knwn good so i had to do a repair of the 2k CD. every things back up know "well almost" i now have a standard PC under device mngr but all irq's are holding tight on 11 still, and as if that wasn't bad enough i can't get into outlook xpress it comes up and says "Outlook express could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be loaded. now i am really confused?

[Darren Wilson]

What version of the VIA Drivers are you using?
I had the NTOSKRNL problem when using the 4.26 or higher drivers.

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Webmaster
The Carpers Lodge.net
The Webs Number One Resource for Today's Carp Angler.

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