IRQs

[manzulu]

I have recently reinstalled W2K on my PIII system. After finally getting all the hardware running including 3 days to get it to see the modem, I had a look at the IRQ assignments through device manager. Virtually every pci device and my AGP video card are sitting at IRQ9 -7 devices in all. And I have 6 unused IRQs 2,5,7,10,11 and 12. I thought I would make some manual reassignments but the change boxes are all greyed out. I know W2K supports IRQ sharing but surely this can't be right. The system seems to run OK and be stable. Any suggestions?

 

[Teq]

Hi Manzulu,
Yep, that's about right... Win2k stacks everything up on the same IRQ. In my system most everything's on IRQ11.

If its all working, don't worry about it.

 

[jlanka]

check out this <A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=252420" target="_new">Knowledge base article</A>

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