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Is device resource depletion *cumulative* ??
'Never heard of resource depletion for add-on devices until it happened to
my own PC. This concerns PCI expansion slots specifically. There's a chunk of memory allocated to each add-on device, and an IRQ assignment, yes? My PC has 3 PCI slots and I've been juggling a variety of add-ons in them for years. Occasionally I have switched a device to a different slot for reasons, and devices have come and gone. Finally I must've gone too far! I removed a TV/FM card, forgetting to explicitly direct Windows XP to Uninstall it first. Then I moved a modem card from another slot to there. Windows was unable to init the modem, balking about "insufficient resources" and the need to free up other devices' resources. So I Uninstalled the modem, put back the TV/FM card (seemlessly, for the New Hdwe Wizard didn't even pop up), then Uninstalled it explicitly, removed it and returned the modem card and after that it initialized and worked just fine. I'm just curious if the problem was just about one device in one slot, or was it a cumulative effect of precious resource depletion from years of my perhaps occasionally being sloppy about the removal of PCI cards. I wish to know the truth. Thank you! |
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Is device resource depletion *cumulative* ??
An analogy is like mail forwarding. If you move next door do you expect
to get your mail without some form of intervention? right_nice wrote: 'Never heard of resource depletion for add-on devices until it happened to my own PC. This concerns PCI expansion slots specifically. There's a chunk of memory allocated to each add-on device, and an IRQ assignment, yes? My PC has 3 PCI slots and I've been juggling a variety of add-ons in them for years. Occasionally I have switched a device to a different slot for reasons, and devices have come and gone. Finally I must've gone too far! I removed a TV/FM card, forgetting to explicitly direct Windows XP to Uninstall it first. Then I moved a modem card from another slot to there. Windows was unable to init the modem, balking about "insufficient resources" and the need to free up other devices' resources. So I Uninstalled the modem, put back the TV/FM card (seemlessly, for the New Hdwe Wizard didn't even pop up), then Uninstalled it explicitly, removed it and returned the modem card and after that it initialized and worked just fine. I'm just curious if the problem was just about one device in one slot, or was it a cumulative effect of precious resource depletion from years of my perhaps occasionally being sloppy about the removal of PCI cards. I wish to know the truth. Thank you! |
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Is device resource depletion *cumulative* ??
An analogy is like mail forwarding. If you move next door do you expect
to get your mail without some form of intervention? right_nice wrote: 'Never heard of resource depletion for add-on devices until it happened to my own PC. This concerns PCI expansion slots specifically. There's a chunk of memory allocated to each add-on device, and an IRQ assignment, yes? My PC has 3 PCI slots and I've been juggling a variety of add-ons in them for years. Occasionally I have switched a device to a different slot for reasons, and devices have come and gone. Finally I must've gone too far! I removed a TV/FM card, forgetting to explicitly direct Windows XP to Uninstall it first. Then I moved a modem card from another slot to there. Windows was unable to init the modem, balking about "insufficient resources" and the need to free up other devices' resources. So I Uninstalled the modem, put back the TV/FM card (seemlessly, for the New Hdwe Wizard didn't even pop up), then Uninstalled it explicitly, removed it and returned the modem card and after that it initialized and worked just fine. I'm just curious if the problem was just about one device in one slot, or was it a cumulative effect of precious resource depletion from years of my perhaps occasionally being sloppy about the removal of PCI cards. I wish to know the truth. Thank you! |
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Is device resource depletion *cumulative* ??
"Bob I" wrote in message ... An analogy is like mail forwarding. If you move next door do you expect to get your mail without some form of intervention? Well I don't think it cumulatively ran out of IRQ assignments because the modem is using #18 and I've heard that numbers 1 thru 15 are reserved for the stock system usage. It's hard to believe it cumulatively ran out of memory chunks, unless they're constrained to a certain range, because I have 1 GB of RAM. So maybe this dilemma just concerned one slot and one card, rather than a cumulative effect. But hey, it begs the question, "What remedy would have been available had I for example already JUNKED that TV/FM card!!??" |
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Is device resource depletion *cumulative* ??
"Bob I" wrote in message ... An analogy is like mail forwarding. If you move next door do you expect to get your mail without some form of intervention? Well I don't think it cumulatively ran out of IRQ assignments because the modem is using #18 and I've heard that numbers 1 thru 15 are reserved for the stock system usage. It's hard to believe it cumulatively ran out of memory chunks, unless they're constrained to a certain range, because I have 1 GB of RAM. So maybe this dilemma just concerned one slot and one card, rather than a cumulative effect. But hey, it begs the question, "What remedy would have been available had I for example already JUNKED that TV/FM card!!??" |
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Is device resource depletion *cumulative* ??
right_nice wrote: "Bob I" wrote in message ... An analogy is like mail forwarding. If you move next door do you expect to get your mail without some form of intervention? Well I don't think it cumulatively ran out of IRQ assignments because the modem is using #18 and I've heard that numbers 1 thru 15 are reserved for the stock system usage. It's hard to believe it cumulatively ran out of memory chunks, unless they're constrained to a certain range, because I have 1 GB of RAM. So maybe this dilemma just concerned one slot and one card, rather than a cumulative effect. But hey, it begs the question, "What remedy would have been available had I for example already JUNKED that TV/FM card!!??" Simply rebooting without the cards in the slots will allow Windows to sort it out. Your problems were created by swapping all of them into the other slots without Windows being booted up to see what was gone. |
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Is device resource depletion *cumulative* ??
right_nice wrote: "Bob I" wrote in message ... An analogy is like mail forwarding. If you move next door do you expect to get your mail without some form of intervention? Well I don't think it cumulatively ran out of IRQ assignments because the modem is using #18 and I've heard that numbers 1 thru 15 are reserved for the stock system usage. It's hard to believe it cumulatively ran out of memory chunks, unless they're constrained to a certain range, because I have 1 GB of RAM. So maybe this dilemma just concerned one slot and one card, rather than a cumulative effect. But hey, it begs the question, "What remedy would have been available had I for example already JUNKED that TV/FM card!!??" Simply rebooting without the cards in the slots will allow Windows to sort it out. Your problems were created by swapping all of them into the other slots without Windows being booted up to see what was gone. |
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