IRQ-Setting with K7VTA3 - V6

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Someone knows how to set IRQ with this board.

It seems to be impossible, to have the build-in/on-Board LAN-adapter
AND to assign IRQ to the graphic-adapter.

In some situation it is essential to have NIC and grafic-card a
separate IRQ.
But this seems to be impossible, so this - for example - will prevent
this board from being used with older OS (DOS/W95/WinNT) or
NVIDIA-Grafic-cards.

Some advice?

Martin

 

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mhonline <mh_scout@firemail.de> wrote:
> Someone knows how to set IRQ with this board.
>
> It seems to be impossible, to have the build-in/on-Board LAN-adapter
> AND to assign IRQ to the graphic-adapter.
>
> In some situation it is essential to have NIC and grafic-card a
> separate IRQ.
> But this seems to be impossible, so this - for example - will prevent
> this board from being used with older OS (DOS/W95/WinNT) or
> NVIDIA-Grafic-cards.

Does the BIOS of this board not allow to change the IRQ assignment? Have
you assigned an IRQ to the AGP card? Have you tried to disable devices
you don't need (onboard IDE, parallel/serial port)? Sometimes this frees
an IRQ which then is assigned to some other device.

I have a K7S5A Pro5 and had a similar problem, the BIOS options to
change IRQ assignemnt was "hidden" so I used the AMI BIOS configuration
utility (AMIBCP75.EXE) to modify the BIOS to get access to these BIOS
options. I don't know if this tool only works with AMI's BIOS, you could
ask at http://p199.ezboard.com/bk7s5amotherboardforum though it is a
K7S5A forum the folks there have much experience with these issues,
maybe a modified BIOS is already available for your board.

hth
Malte