Yves Leclerc
April 22nd 03, 01:48 AM
Apparently Windows XP was designed to "share" IRQs.
Y.
"Chrispy" > wrote in message
news:3b4101c2b911$2d582850$89f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA01. ..
> Hi
>
> My graphics card (Leadtek GF2 GTS Pro), sound card (SB
> Live! PCI), Netcomm (Lucent) modem and VIA onboard USB
> devices are all using the same IRQ!! My motherboard is an
> ASUS A7V-133C BIOS Rev 1009.
>
> If I load in Safe mode of Windows XP HOME EDITION each
> device has its own IRQ which is what I want. However on a
> normal boot they are all using IRQ9.
>
> Since I believe this is causing problems with DX8 games
> how can I change the IRQs of these devices? The device
> manager won't let me change anything and even if I
> disable "Plug and Play Aware OS" in the BIOS and set the
> IRQs for each PCI slot (and AGP) it doesn't make any
> difference in Windows!
>
> Please help! - I have also included a DXDiag dump FYI.
> Thanks!!
Y.
"Chrispy" > wrote in message
news:3b4101c2b911$2d582850$89f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA01. ..
> Hi
>
> My graphics card (Leadtek GF2 GTS Pro), sound card (SB
> Live! PCI), Netcomm (Lucent) modem and VIA onboard USB
> devices are all using the same IRQ!! My motherboard is an
> ASUS A7V-133C BIOS Rev 1009.
>
> If I load in Safe mode of Windows XP HOME EDITION each
> device has its own IRQ which is what I want. However on a
> normal boot they are all using IRQ9.
>
> Since I believe this is causing problems with DX8 games
> how can I change the IRQs of these devices? The device
> manager won't let me change anything and even if I
> disable "Plug and Play Aware OS" in the BIOS and set the
> IRQs for each PCI slot (and AGP) it doesn't make any
> difference in Windows!
>
> Please help! - I have also included a DXDiag dump FYI.
> Thanks!!