Hardware conflicts

[Cyber Source]

I believe all AGP cards/slots require cpu attention

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of
Robert Dege
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 6:59 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Hardware conflicts



I found that the easiest way to change an IRQ on an IO board is to
physically change the IO slot that the board is sitting in.  Some MOBO's
bind an IRQ to a IO slot.... which obviously doesn't work all the time.

Your AGP Video shouldn't need the IRQ unless it uses GL style apps, or is
a Video capture card (some special feature of the card that would require
special CPU attention).  If you don't have this, then the Video & SCSI can
have the same IRQ, via IRQ sharing.

Also, depending upon the MOBO itself, have you check to see if you have
the latest FLASH version of your BIOS?

-Rob

> You should be able to change the IRQ for the SCSI card at the SCSI
> utilitiies (usually ctrl-A at boot) and then you might also be able to
> not assign an IRQ to the VGA. I would start with those 2. Also, most
> motherboards have a fail-safe config already set that you can apply with
> one click, you could try that if the above doesnt do it for ya,
> peter at thecybersource.com
>
> Robert F. Stockdale IV wrote:
>
> > My workstation has gone down. It is a 2year old AMD Athlon 500Mhz. It
> > has USB disabled as I don't use it yet. I tried to install Mandrake
> > 8.0 from CD. It started up fine. However, When I got to configure the
> > mouse in installation it froze up. I rebooted to get into bios setup.
> > found USB was not disable. I disabled it again. Now I have a conflict
> > with AGP and my Adaptec scsi card. They both want IRQ 11. Since my CDR
> > and DVD are both scsi it wants a bootable disk. I don't do M$ Windows
> > on this box nor my server that has same board/chip and scsi devices.
> > Does anyone know howto fix this problem? Are there utilities to assign
> > which device gets which IRQ? (Mainboard is a FIC SD11A) There are only
> > 2 options in the CMOS setup for each IRQ. They are: PCI/pnp and
> > ISA/??? . Don' recall what  ??? is as I don't run ISA anything.
> >
> > Thank you
> > Bob Stockdale
> >
> > ps. If I can, I may make it to the meeting. Might even bring this box.
> > Got to first see what the other half has planned.
> >
>
>
>



Dege

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