help ! all my devices in using IRQ7 in WInXP...

[AndrewChong]

Hi... this morning when i woke up and turn on my Computer.... something weird was going on.... it was hellato slow... so i was checking around on what seems to be the problem.. and i found out that most of my primary device is using IRQ7...

My System
AMD Athlon 950Mhz
256MB PC133 SDRAM
Maxtor 40Gb 7200RPM Drive
ABIT KT7-Raid Motherboard
Creative SBLive Soundcard
Leadtek Geforce2 GTS
Alcatel ADSL internal Modem
D-Link PCI Network Card
Microsoft WindowsXP Corporate edition

it seems that the problem lies within WindowsXP itself... because during bootup... i can see that my devices are using Individual IRQ's (example. soundcard = irq5 , lan and dsl = irq10 , raid controller = irq 11 , video = irq12 and etc )... if i go to device manager and try to change it's devices IRQ settings... the options are grayed out.... so there's someway to remove all these devices and reinstall them... ? like deleting keys in the registry or etc... or are they other ways to solved my problem

 

[RedGuard]

I am having a similar problem with my video card and network card sharing IRQ 11. Even after I unistalled both, went into BIOS and removed one of my two serial ports to free up IRQ 5, after reinstalling they are both on 11 again.

Seems as though non-PnP devices are auto assigned. Don't know how to fix and am awaiting the answer as well.

 

[AndyHui]

Please read the FAQ: Why are all my devices using one IRQ in Win2K/WinXP?