Reassigning IRQs when checkbox isn't available??

[Sionnach]

Hi -
I'm having some problems with video-capture software, and it's been
suggested that the problem may be the TV card sharing an IRQ with another
device.

I checked through the Device Manager, and sure enough it's sharing IRQ 10
with my onboard sound chip.
However, the checkbox for "Use automatic settings" is greyed out for both
devices, which means it's impossible to reassign one of them to a different
IRQ!
Going through the BIOS to the PNP configuration doesn't help. (I tried a
number of things that solved issues like this with Win 98, none of 'em
worked.)

Anybody know how I can assign one of the stupid things to a different
IRQ??

[Walter Clayton]

Reinstall the system and specify a standard HAL.

Or, a much better option; talk to the tech support people of the device
having an issue and insist on a driver that follows IRQ sharing
specification, especially since those have been around since prior to the
days of Win95.

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"Sionnach" > wrote in message
...
>
> Hi -
> I'm having some problems with video-capture software, and it's been
> suggested that the problem may be the TV card sharing an IRQ with another
> device.
>
> I checked through the Device Manager, and sure enough it's sharing IRQ
10
> with my onboard sound chip.
> However, the checkbox for "Use automatic settings" is greyed out for
both
> devices, which means it's impossible to reassign one of them to a
different
> IRQ!
> Going through the BIOS to the PNP configuration doesn't help. (I tried a
> number of things that solved issues like this with Win 98, none of 'em
> worked.)
>
> Anybody know how I can assign one of the stupid things to a different
> IRQ??
>
>
>

[D.Currie]

"Sionnach" > wrote in message
...
>
> Hi -
> I'm having some problems with video-capture software, and it's been
> suggested that the problem may be the TV card sharing an IRQ with another
> device.
>
> I checked through the Device Manager, and sure enough it's sharing IRQ
10
> with my onboard sound chip.
> However, the checkbox for "Use automatic settings" is greyed out for
both
> devices, which means it's impossible to reassign one of them to a
different
> IRQ!
> Going through the BIOS to the PNP configuration doesn't help. (I tried a
> number of things that solved issues like this with Win 98, none of 'em
> worked.)
>
> Anybody know how I can assign one of the stupid things to a different
> IRQ??
>
>

XP is supposed to work with IRQ sharing, and most of the time it's not the
sharing that's the problem as it would have been with 98. At one point I had
6 things allegedly sharing one IRQ and it all worked just fine.

You can try swapping the physical slots that the devices are in, to see if
they rearrange themselves differently.

The only other option is to turn off ACPI, but that opens a different can of
worms, as you probably will have to manually turn off the computer instead
of it doing the automatic shutdown.

See you in RPDB....

[Sionnach]

"D.Currie" wrote:

Well fancy meeting you here! <G>
>
> XP is supposed to work with IRQ sharing,

After I posted, I went to the MS Knowlege base, and I see that "Microsoft
says so". <G>


>and most of the time it's not the
> sharing that's the problem as it would have been with 98. At one point I
had
> 6 things allegedly sharing one IRQ and it all worked just fine.

It certainly hasn't been a problem with anything else, including other
video software. I have a growing suspicion that the problem is the buggy
software, not my hardware.

>
> You can try swapping the physical slots that the devices are in, to see if
> they rearrange themselves differently.

I did think of that, just haven't tried it yet.. the only thing I can move
is the TV card; the sound is onboard. (Couldn't get my soundcard to work
under 98 when I built the new computer this winter, and the onboard sound
was fine.)

> The only other option is to turn off ACPI, but that opens a different can
of
> worms, as you probably will have to manually turn off the computer instead
> of it doing the automatic shutdown.

Yeah, I found that out in the MS Knowlege Base, also. (I should have
looked there first. <g>) I don't really think I want to screw around with a
computer configuration that's working just fine with everything EXCEPT this
one piece of software.

<rant mode on>
Software in question, btw, is Pinnacle's "Studio 8"- it was highly
recommended to me, has won Emmys and a PC Magazine award, etc., but it turns
out to be the buggiest damn piece of crap I've ever worked with.
This ain't just my opinion, either- in trying to get it working, I've been
reading USENET PC-video NGs *and* Pinnacle's own forums, and there are many,
many people having horrible issues with it. AFAICT, Pinnacle only tested it
with a couple of DV camcorders and their own TV-capture devices; it's for
**** with almost all analog camcorders and non-Pinnacle TV cards.
AND it's just plain buggy in general! It insisted on setting the sound
source to my PHONE LINE for Godsakes- another bug encountered by hundreds of
people- and the only fix Pinnacle could offer was "download our latest 15-mg
beta update, which fixes that bug but will create other problems".
It apparently is too logical an idea to publish a seperate, small bug
fix!! Grrrrr.

<rant mode off>



>
> See you in RPDB....

Yep!

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