*GASP* 4 devices sharing the same IRQ!

[elguineo]

These four devices are sharing irq 11:

* geforce 3
* sblive 5.1
* nic #1 (3com)
* nic #2 (realtek)

this can't be good! how do I change this
without reseating the pci cards? i hate
doing that. the device manager won't let
me manually change them...

the cards are seated in this order:
* AGP (geforce3)
* blank
* realtek nic
* blank
* sblive 5.1
* 3com card
* blank

what can I Do?

 

[Noriaki]

Is this in Win2000?

 

[mdXtreme3d]

where's the problem again?

IRQ sharing is a feature that all PCI cards are supposed to support. And if you are running Win2k, they aren't really using the same (physical) IRQ, it just appears that way because of ACPI

 

[elguineo]

win2k, yessir.

 

[Noriaki]

In Win2000 it's perfectly normal.
Unless you have a specific problem ignore it.

ACPI shares all PCI devices on a single IRQ usually.
I had about 9 at one point...I think NFS4 has 10.

 

[bozo1]

Why are all my devices using one IRQ in W2K AnandTech FAQ.

 

[fkloster]

hehe, NFS4 has the record!!! He had like 11 devices sharing the same IRQ without conflict!!

 

[GoSharks]

awww.. i only have 6 on irq 11 (win2k)