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Nec 400 mhz
win 98
96 mb ram
sb live x-gamer
voodoo 3-2000
Dave
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Thanks,
Jeff
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Mine like to fight over IRQ 9.
The trick to splitting them up is to assign that IRQ to ISA in the
BIOS, then re-boot. This splits them up.
You can then re-enable the IRQ.
Tim
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Marc.
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Dave
> Marc.
> > I've come across a problem that seems to occur on many different systems
> > running a SB Live! (Value, Platinum, whatever) and a network adapter
> > (LAN-ethernet card). The SB and the LAN card may NOT share one IRQ. If
> they
> > do, frequent lockups will occur whenever you play games 3D intensive
games
> > (happened with N3, Panzer Elite, Spirit of Speed, MGPRS, Driver...).
Other
> > hardware doesn't seem to care for a shared IRQ, but these two seem to
hate
> > each other very much.
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Tim
I have occasional hickups with my system that could be caused by this
PCI/ISA conflict - sometimes crashes when using cdrom - SCSI card on
last PCI slot!!
i had to do plenty of muckin about to get the sblive and the awe to
work together. (for music)
and i still sometimes have problems with gpl trying to use the awe
{
celeron 500
lx board
sblive
voodoo2
tnt1
SCSI card
SB AWE gold
win98 1
(no network card)
TIA
col
>>What about a network card and a usb port?? My computer freezes basically
>>when I'm using the keyboard, and at no other time, and I've already verified
>>that the other parts of my computer are not on the same IRQ....
>I've never seen a network card share an IRQ without wigging out.
>If the net card is in the slot next to the AGP port, get it out of
>there. AGP and PCI one share resources.
>The last PCI slot shares resources with the ISA bus. Don't use that
>slot if you have any ISA devices.
>Tim
It does on both of my motherboards, Colin (an Epox Super Socket 7 and
an Abit slot 1).
If you have a spare PCI slot now, you might have an easy fix.
The Voodoo2 doesn't use an IRQ. Put the Voodoo in there, and leave
slot next to the AGP port open.
I didn't have the free slot, so I put my V2 in the first PCI slot, and
my SCSI card co-habitates nicely with my ISA modem in the last PCI
slot. All I use my SCSI card for is a CDRW, though.
Good luck!
Tim
>I have occasional hickups with my system that could be caused by this
>PCI/ISA conflict - sometimes crashes when using cdrom - SCSI card on
>last PCI slot!!
>i had to do plenty of muckin about to get the sblive and the awe to
>work together. (for music)
>and i still sometimes have problems with gpl trying to use the awe
>{
>celeron 500
>lx board
>sblive
>voodoo2
>tnt1
>SCSI card
>SB AWE gold
>win98 1
>}
>(no network card)
>TIA
>col
thanks, i'll give it a go next time i'm in there...
col
it's not the hardware: it's the SB-drivers ...
I have seldom found drivers/cards that fully meet the
PCI-specifications, so I always use one interrupt per card - works if
you only have 4 cards that need an IRQ - in my case AGP graphics card,
network-card, sb live, isdn-card. with win98 you may have to disable the
use of ACPI (somewhere in you devicemanager under IRQ-Holder ...) to
assign the IRQs within the devicemanager.
Lio
every mobo-manufacturer assigns them in a different way ... if you have
a mobo with 1 AGP and 6 PCI, you have to try different slot combinations
until every card that needs an IRQ got its very own one (check with
systeminformation/conflicts in windows). the german magazine c't had a
very good article regarding the "IRQ dilemma" in the latest issue.
Lio
