damn, civleme, first I sware I saw a TYPO, from yu last week, and now humour.... what next... will we will discuss M$ dot NET..... winner XP? <BIG GRIN> really we all thank you. On Wednesday 30 May 2001 19:42, Civileme wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2001 07:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > Civileme wrote: > > > Well, the IRQs are assigned in groups to certain slots on the > > > motherboard. There are also ways in the BIOS of manipulating the IRQs > > > assigned. So using the BIO assignments and switching slots might be > > > what youwant to look at doing. > > > > > > Civileme > > > > Okay, this worked! I moved my PCI cards around, left slot 1 open, and > > mapped my IDE stuff to slot 1. No more conflict. Thanks everyone! ;-) > > > > BTW, does this mean that if you use ALL your PCI slots and have a > > conflict that you couldn't map your IDE to a slot? Just wondering. > > Technically PCIs are supposed to be able to share interrupts--and they do. > Sometimes, when two very high speed high priority devices share an > interrupt, particularly one that is mapped as low in the stack as IRQ3 is, > performance takes a heavy, even glitchy, hit. > > And some mobos have no ISA and two ide slots, so their BIOSes allow > different forms of mappings. But sure, you can have so many devices that > you paint yourself into a corner. Then it is time to learn how to spell > MOSIX or Beowulf or LAN. > > Civileme > > > Also, just wanted to point out that while I was moving cards around, > > rebooting, etc, etc, Mandrake handled it like a champ, no problems at > > all... > > That is very good news--for your next act figure out the steps necessary to > make Software Manager wrap around itself .-) > > > Windows 98se, on the other hand, complained - coughed - and wheezed like > > a 90 year old Asthmatic...it booted up into a 16 color/vga mode, and I > > had to reinstall my video card, SB, and SCSI cards drivers...(and btw, I > > only use Windog for games like Starcraft and Diablo2 - Once Wine can run > > these games fully, Windoze is ancient history!). ;-) > > Try the codeweavers version--believe it does run Starcraft. > > Civileme
