More IRQ's on motherboards

[wbatten]

In this new age of computers and technology, there is no excuse for IRQ sharing. MB and OS manufactures should be working on this NOW!

This alone would stop 60% of problems, and this would help direct PNP AKA (plug-n-pray) in the right direction.

There should be the option in windows to change the IRQ's on the FLY without restart!

Damn it now i`m getting pist.


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Techno®

[AlienDyne]

Yeah, it'd be great but there's a tiny problem.
In order to do that, they'd have to change everything about the basic system's architecture. Don't think it'd be very easy, but it's possible.

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"Matter is passive. In spite of its power, it can't be controlled without the human mind."
Sokrates

[wbatten]

Yes and No!

Win2K supports more IRQs but it limited to the Bios.
Today, it would be perfect for a motherboard bios to support 24 IRQs


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Techno®

[AlienDyne]

That's exactly what I'm trying to say.
You can't just make a BIOS that supports more IRQs. You have to change the whole motherboard architecture.

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"Matter is passive. In spite of its power, it can't be controlled without the human mind."
Sokrates

[lysergic]

Well, have you noticed on systems setup for ACPI that it is not nearly the issue it once was? I almost jumped out of my skin when I found all this assigned to irq 9 on my system.....

ACPI controller
Matrox G400
SB live
ATA 66 card (twice)
SCSI card for scanner
USB
and 1 network card.

Until of course realized everything is working great. The only thing not on 9 are items that are non plug and play. Although it still greatly offends me to see unused IRQs. Have 5, 10, and 11 free right now and nothing to put on them.

And have seen this on other new systems with either 98SE or win2k. Thought for sure this one system I did a few weeks ago was going to be a nightmare. Packed to the gills (6 PCI slots on the motherboard and 5 pci + 1 isa used) plus USB and such on a motherboard with no IRQ assignments to PCI slots and a VIA chipset.

Installed win2k almost everything poped on to IRQ 10 and did not have one hardware conflict. Was really nice for a change.

[wbatten]

I was concerned when Win2K assighned all my PCI slots to IRQ#9 using ACPI I tried ACPI on Win98SE but it didn't handle it very will, I posted the concern here, http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/fo...ML/000146.html

Then I found the answer I was looking for.


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Techno®