default in the OS. Disable the serial ports if not needed, to free up IRQ's. Disable the on-board audio (if the board has this option). If you have no PCI sound card, you can re-enable the on-board audio after the OS is successfully installed. Next, the...

be more easy ...Edited by Labdog on 05/12/02 11:42 PM. tyan tigerMP 2 xp1800's, temps: 42c and 44c idle, 47c-51c full load. 2 thermaltake valcano 6cu hsf [insert philosophical statement here] I needed some free IRQ because my soundcard didn't liked sharing...

How do you know the IRQ sharing is affecting access speed? AFAIK, when the mfr specifies that a "free IRQ" needs to be dedicated for their device, that's for a non-APIC operating environment... e.g. Win98, where the old i8259 IRQs are used... and of course...

just 'couldn't do', like add a certain peripheral card, because you had no free IRQ that would accomodate it. Trust me - you don't want this headache; in addition, there is so much IRQ driven harware in a modern system, that IRQ sharing has become a 'must';...

3,4 and 7) and still ahve crowding on IRQ10. Heres my IRQ layout for the stuff I have installed IRQ5 USB IRQ10 SBLive WinTV Audio AND Video Geforce3 IRQ11 DXR3 IRQ12 Promise Fastrak100 RAID (onboard), Network card. Seeing as how I have 3 free IRQs,...

and gain usable resorces like IRQ's. For exsample: I do not have any Serial Devices on my machine, so in the BIOS I disable both Serial Ports and gain Free IRQ's. Many times this will make conflict's with Video and Sound go Away. Give it a try if your not...

on IRQ 9 because of a new thing that is called ACPI (Advanced Configuration Power Interface). This new thing can map and use correctly up to 32 devices on any single free IRQ (providing they are 32-bit devices or better) there is nothing wrong with your system....

i do not like this because i dont want my sound card and video card on the same irq because it causes problems in some games. i tried changing the irq's in the hardware properties but it wont let me, i also tried doing it in the bios but windows overrides it....

BIOS. And using it is simple; you don't have to worry about 'flashing' your BIOS, you can run it from the DOS prompt! And you can change the settings on the fly! No need to reboot your machine!" Unfortunately, Tweakbios doesn't appear to have been updated...