I don't use win2k but... If you go to the device manager under the control panel, then click on the resources tab, you might be able to assign resources manually.
-Mark On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > hi all, > > i have a linux/win2k dual boot. everything is fine under linux, but > i've got IRQ problems under windows. > > the sound sucks under win2k, but only when playing games. it's fine > when playing mp3's. looking at the control panel, i noticed that the > whole damned system is assigned to IRQ 11: > > linux win2k > > 1 timer timer > 2 keyboard > 3 cascade > 4 scsi com1 > 5 > 6 floppy > 7 > 8 rtc rtc > 9 ACPI > 10 > 11 sound/usb/net sound/usb/net/scsi/tv capture/AGP > 12 PS2 PS/2 > 13 mathco > 14 ide0 ide0 > 15 ide1 id1 > > > the problem is obvious -- sound cards generally don't like sharing IRQ's > to begin with, but having sound and video on the same IRQ is enough to > kill sound on games. if i can get either sound or video off of 11, i'm > sure everything will be fine. > > but here's the rub. linux works perfectly. i'm reluctant to start > pulling PCI cards out and redistributing them, because i don't want to > trade a problem under windows for a problem under linux. besides, > everything is on 11, so i don't see how shuffling cards would work in > this case. > > any ideas on what i should do? i'm sufficiently unfamiliar with windows > that i'm not sure what resources are available to help resolve the > problem. > > i can't find anything saying "assign IRQ X to PCI slot Y" in BIOS. > maybe i just don't know where to look. > > however, there's options to "let BIOS assign IRQ X" and "reserve IRQ X". > i'm not sure what "reserve" means, but i'm assuming that "reserve" means > "don't assign IRQ X because an ISA card is going to want it". > > the machine in question uses a networked printer and has no serial > devices, so IRQ's 3, 4, 5, and 7 are useless. however, i can't find a > way to tell windows to use them. > > help? > > pete > > ps- this kind of problem wouldn't happen under an AMD64 system, right? > > pps- this just emphasizes the fact that i really have no idea how IRQ's > are assigned to begin with. i know that certain PCI ports are tied to > share certain IRQ's, hence "shuffling PCI cards" is a way of dealing > with IRQ conflicts. and i know that you can instruct BIOS not to assign > IRQ's to let ISA cards take them. but there must be more to that. why > would all my PCI cards be assigned to the same IRQ? does anybody > *really* know the nitty gritty details of how these things are assigned? > > -- > Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein > GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
