ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering disabled

[Guest]

I need some advice regarding a problem that Checkit reports with my system. It lists the following item 4 times:

ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering

One of the four times, the item is listed as "disabled".

Is this something I should be concerned about? If so, how do I fix it?

I have an Athlon 700 CPU on a Asus K7V motherboard. The system seems to work fine.

 

[Guest]

Had the same situation on an FIC VA-503+ board, except I had 8 IRQ holders! Removed all of them using Control Panel, restarted Windows and it set up the 3 IRQ holders I really needed as Found New Hardware

Tyler

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Tyler, for your comment. I've solved the problem. In case anyone cares, here's the solution:

Unlike Tyler's situation, I guess, Windows' Device Manager didn't flag anything as being a problem, although Checkit did. So I prowled around in Device Manager, and found that in PCI bus/IRQ Steering, there are indeed 4 different checkboxes for "Use IRQ Steering". The one labelled "Get IRQ table from Protected Mode PCIBIOS 2.1 call" was not checked off, ergo disabled. I checked it off and rebooted. Checkit still told me that the problem wasn't fixed. I did an online update of my Checkit program, and the error flag went away.

The question now is, was it checking off the box or updating Checkit that really "fixed" it?