need a motherboard I can control...

[sleze]

Currently I have the MSI NeoFSR motherboard, a firewire card, and an All-in-wonder radeon. The problem I have is that I am out of IRQs and the all-in-wonder does not share IRQs very well. No matter how I change my settings by disabling this or enabling that in the bios, I can't seem to give the AIW its own IRQ before windows starts(I can do it in windows but I still get locked up and according to ATI it needs its own IRQ from the get go).

This leads me to the point of my post. Can anyone recommend an Intl 875P motherboard that allows me to say which IRQ goes to which PCI/AGP slot? Like the good old days.

 

[Crashman]

What OS are you using?

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[sleze]

XP Pro

 

[Crashman]

Wow, you don't see that often in XP!

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[khha4113]

I think it depends on which one your AIW shares IRQ with. I have Asus 9600XT VIVO (Radeon 9600XT) that could get my comp locked up if it has to share IRQ with NVIDIA sound card (built-in on my Abit NF7-S) or my Promise ATA controller, but it runs OK if it's sharing with my US Robotic modem or USB controller.
Try to move your other cards such as firewire to different slot to see if it works because AFAIK, you can't change IRQ manually in XP Pro.

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[sleze]

In the course of troubleshooting this problem, I have disabled/removed everything and just had the AIW working. Even in that case, it works fine(just no audio). As soon as I enable anything, it jumps and places them on the same IRQ(I have been able to make it take 5 and 9). It will eventually lock up no matter what it shares with(usually shares with USB but sometimes shares with the audio card).

In some cases I have been able to have audio or NIC or USB or firewire enabled and there will be a free IRQ(like 8 or 9) but there is no way to tell the motherboard to give it to my video card.

Does anyone have a motherboard that allows you to tell it which IRQ goes where?

 

[Crashman]

Sometimes it helps to set "PNP OS: No" in BIOS. That allows BIOS to give components their own IRQ

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