Abit KT7-RAID Irq's N Crashes...

[Andeh]

Got an KT7-RAID recently and after a clean install of Win2k i noticed that 5 devices were all sharing IRQ11.. this normal? Also experienced a few strange crashes soon after installation, explorer, mirc...

My other systems solid as a rock in win2k, seemed a little strange to see crashes so soon..

The KT7-System is:

Tbird 800MHz
128mb PC-133 CAS 2 Memory
IBM 20gb UDMA 1000 HD
Voodoo3 3000
SB PCI 128
Intel PR0 100+ NIC

Any help would be much appreciated

Andeh

 

[ogn]

If you don't want everything on IRQ 11, then turn off ACPI in the bios.

 

[NuovoTech]

No switch in bios for that...

 

[zboss]

Andeh,

Try moving some boards around. Do it one at a time - start with your video card (obviously) and set them up in the OS as you go along. Here is what I have -

Slot 1 - NIC card ( slot1 usually shares the IRQ with the AGP but I have no AGP video card )
Slot 2 - Voodoo 3 Video card
Slot 5 - Creative Live

This works out pretty well but I will have to change it as soon as I get an AGP. It will then look like this -

AGP - Video Card
Slot 1 - Empty
Slot 2 - Sound Card
Slot 5 - NIC

Give one of these a try.

 

[ogn]

How about trying to manually assign IRQ's and turn off PNP OS.

 

[allan120]

This page is pretty helpful if you have are still having problems:

Abit KT7 FAQ

Good luck.