IRQ sharing issues with GF2MX

[Guest]

A few days ago I ran 3Dmarks2000 and I apparently got a low score for a GF2MX (3040). I noticed that my video card shared IRQ 9 with my SBLive! and my NIC. Now people here told me that the low performance of my card might be due to the IRQ sharing stuff and they have told me to uninstall my cards and move the PCI cards (SBLive and NIC) to the very last slots. So I did, leaving the first two PCI slots empty. But upon reinstallation Win2K reassigned the PCI cards to the same IRQ 9. I'm stuck there. Is it possible to manually change the IRQ?
Win2K doesn't seem to let me do that since no conflicts are detected with other devices.

Here's my config:
P3-600 (Katmai)
Asus P2B rev1.02(BIOS 1.12)
256Mo PC133 CL2 Crucial
Hercules 3D Prophet GF2MX with Det3 (6.31)
SBLive!
10/100 NIC (used with Samsung cable-modem)
USR 56K faxmodem (ISA)




- Better go Green than Blue!

 

[Guest]

When I first built my system (Duron 800, Soyo K7VTA, VisionTek GeForce 2 MX) a month ago, I noticed that my vid card and my modem were sharing IRQ 11. The first way around this for me was to disable either one of the serial ports, or the usb ports in the bios. Actually, since I don't use any of those type devices, I eventually decided to remove all three. That freed up three IRQ's, and when I rebooted Win 98, it removed the modem from IRQ 11, and placed it on one of the free IRQ's.

That is where I reccomend that you should start.
If you can live without a serial port, that is.

Hope that helps.

BC.

 

[Guest]

i told you win 2k is not for games. I got 6900+ on my first try with 3dmark 2k. the only advise i can give you is 98se!

 

[Guest]

Sure it is! Of course, it wasn't intended for games in the first place but they run great on it. There's no way I'm going back to the Win98SE Crash-O-Rama platform.
I'm only concerned with the IRQ sharing because of the low scores I get on 3Dmark2000, but gameplay is just great.



- Better go Green than Blue!

 

[Guest]

Thanks!
I'll try that.



- Better go Green than Blue!

 

[Guest]

One other thing to search for in your bios.
The bios on my board had an option to reserve a specific
irq for the vid card. When I disabled that, it shifted from
irq 11 to irq 4, which i thought was pretty convienient.
Try looking for that feature, too.

BC

 

[Berman]

Just wondering, when you guys found out that your vid cards were sharing IRQ's with other things, did the Device Manager point it out in the Conflicting Device List? Or did you discover it yourselves?