all my options are greyed out, but i'm beginning to suspect this might be
the problem with my soundcard (i have sound, just not in games)
Sudesh
Sudesh
Unfortunately, unless you tell it otherwise, Win2K sets itself up with ACPI
by default - this means that all IRQ's are handled somewhat dynamically,
which is why you can't change them. I seem to remember there being a way to
change this without reinstalling, but can't remember what it was.
Anybody?
Rick
MadDAWG
Select the hardware tab, and device manager.
Underneath the 'Computer' icon, you should see the ACPI thingy. Right click
properties, and select driver.
Select update driver, and display a list of known drivers. Select show all
hardware of this device class, and look for
(Standard Computers), Standard PC.
Thats the one you want.
Dan.
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You should also match this in the BIOS (if supported) by
turning OFF the ACPI aware operating system option.
Bear in mind, without ACPI you will not have control of
hardware resources from the operating system, so any
IRQ changes you need will have to be a slot change or
modification to the BIOS config.
iksteh
The only time this causes problems is when there incompatible drivers or
hardware installed.
There is a way to run your system as a "Standard PC", in which case you can
modify these things yourself, but it requires reinstalling Windows 2K and
it's not really recommended.
-Larry
It is highly problematic, and a complete waste of time.
-Larry
> Unfortunately, unless you tell it otherwise, Win2K sets itself up with
ACPI
> by default - this means that all IRQ's are handled somewhat dynamically,
> which is why you can't change them. I seem to remember there being a way
to
> change this without reinstalling, but can't remember what it was.
> Anybody?
> Rick
> > Anybody know how to change the irq's on W2k?
> > all my options are greyed out, but i'm beginning to suspect this might
be
> > the problem with my soundcard (i have sound, just not in games)
> > Sudesh
The main problem is that your system is built with a particular HAL
configuration when Windows is installed. By manually changing from ACPI to
Standard PC, you don't have the proper matching HAL in place.
It gets ugly from there for most people.
-Larry
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I have done it, and its resolved IRQ contention issues I had between my
realtek network card, Geforce AGP card, USB and everything ***y else being
all on IRQ 9. I got unreasonable crashes every hour or so. Now I don't.
Seemed to work for me.
Where did you get all your information from Larry? Any references from
Microsoft on this? Any pages where its mentioned how bad this is?
What I'm saying is, your milage may vary. Don't take my word for it - but if
your machine is not working anyways...... whats to lose?
Dan