how to change IRQ assignments in Std PC Win2K ?

[sublogic]

hello
I have taken subhuman's advice about making my Win2K system a standard PC instead of ACPI.

I have 3 PCI cards in my system: my Pulsar1, a NIC and a SCSI card for my old 2x CDR writer (I really must upgrade that). Also I have a GeForce2 AGP card.

My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-6VXE+ and I have a PIII/800 cpu.

I reinstalled Windows and Cubase. But I noticed that most of my PCI cards are all on IRQ 11. And in the Hardware config control panel, it won't let me change the IRQs (it is greyed out). Only the SCSI card is on IRQ5.

I have 2 questions I guess:
1) Is it possible to change IRQs in Win2K Standard mode PC ?
2) If so, how ?

I've searched this forum for "IRQ", PCI", but didn't find any answer to my questions. If I missed anything sorry, please point me to the right link, and thankyou in advance for your help!

[marcuspocus]

You have to change the pci slot of your card until they are all on separate irq...They are sharing with other stuff, probably with AGP and USB...

[sublogic]

Thanks for your reply Marcuspocus.

I checked the cards' IRQs in device manager and the SCSI card is on IRQ5 and the Pulsar, NIC, and AGP cards are on IRQ 11. USB has IRQ 10. COM ports are disabled in the BIOS.

If I swapped the SCSI and Pulsar, that would give Pulsar its own IRQ (5) and all the others would be on IRQ 11 I guess. Would that be good enough or should I try to get all the cards on different IRQs ?

Thankyou for your help

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: sublogic on 2002-11-21 02:51 ]</font>

[marcuspocus]

Try to get an irq for each table, but defenitely give one to at least pulsar...

[sublogic]

well I'm happy to say swapping the Pulsar & SCSI worked - Pulsar has its own IRQ now.

Will work on the rest later, made a good start though. Thanks for helping me.

[garyb]

your motherboard(and bios)affects this situation.