The ways I have found to do this: 1. Move your 1394 card to a different pci slot. Bob (N4HY) has felt that the best option was the last pci slot but I haven't seen that pattern.Switch your cards around, boot up, go to device manager and see how it affects your config. 2. If you have the manual for your motherboard, look at the documentation for your bios. There are a couple of things you can play with. First, some bios's have a PnP IRQ mapping feature that can allow you to to map an IRQ to a PCI slot. The second thing you can try is if your Bios has the option for defining whether you are using a PnP-aware OS. Normally you set this to NO so that the Bios assigns iRQs to the devices (trust the bios more than the OS I guess). I have found that it can change things if you turn this to YES and see how Windows allocates the IRQs. Sometimes it can help, sometimes not. 3. Disable devices you do not need. Best is to disable them in the bios but if you cannot, disable them in the Windows device manager. As an example, most new machines come with 6 Sata drive capacity. Since most of us are still using IDE for dvd-r drives, if you turned off all Sata devices and used an old IDE disk drive, it will free up a bunch of IRQs. Disable LPT, serial ports, onboard audio, extra USB controllers, whatever. The more IRQs you have free the better chance that the distribution will be wider.
Thats about the best I know of to manage these in todays computer! 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 242 0911 On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Steven O'Neal <se_on...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Marty, > > I did a quick research and seems one path is turning off AHCP, I DO NOT THINK > THAT IS A GOOD IDEA. > > Maybe one of the computer wizards will have a safer answer. > > Thanks > > From: brahman...@aol.com > Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:15:08 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] How to force IRQ's (Question) > To: se_on...@hotmail.com; flexradio@flex-radio.biz > > > > > > > > > It is a reoccurring problem many of us are having. If you find a solution, > please post it here on the reflector. > 73, > Marty AB5GU > An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! > _________________________________________________________________ > Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. > http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009 > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
