IRQ Conflicts!!! how do you allocate an agp card its own irq?

[Smurfwow]

argh...

I think I found out why my geforce2 doesnt work in win98... its sharing an irq with my network card(irq 11, even though 5 and 12 are free, win98 gave it 11) i think thats why IE keeps crashing.

what i find strange is... in win2k nearly all my stuff is sharing one irq, but it hasnt crashed/frozen/BSOD yet. (my sound card, net card, vid card and usb hub all have irq 9)

but in win98, i get freezes every few minutes when ie is open, and occasionaly when it isnt.

so what i want to know is, how can i manually allocate my geforce2 an irq???

I think i know how to do it my bios with pci cards, but ive got no idea what do with this agp card.

btw- my comp is a k7-750, 256mb, k7v, sblive, gf2mx, and smc 10/100 nic.
I'm running the latest 6.31 det3's for my gf2mx, in both win2k and 98. I've tried installing the drivers from the self extracting package and the zip file but i still get crashes in win98.

thanks

 

[chiwawa626]

I was wondering that too, howcome win2k only uses a few IRQ's:

System Information report written at: 11/19/2000 09:49:16 PM
[IRQs]

IRQ Number Device
9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
9 NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro
9 VIA USB Universal Host Controller
9 VIA USB Universal Host Controller
9 CNET PRO200WL PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
9 Creative SB Live! Value (WDM)
9 Ambient HaM Data Fax
9 Win2000 Promise Ultra100 (tm) IDE Controller (PDC20265)
8 System CMOS/real time clock
13 Numeric data processor
6 Standard floppy disk controller
4 Communications Port (COM1)
3 Communications Port (COM2)
1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse
14 Primary IDE Channel
15 Secondary IDE Channel

 

[pulse8]

The reason that they are all on the same IRQ is because ACPI is enabled and Win2k does that when ACPI is enabled.

David

 

[Ben]

First, read this about W2K Link

Now, about Win98. Do you have the network card in the PCI slot next the the AGP slot? If you do, that's why it's sharing the same IRQ. Move the NIC to a different PCI slot.

Let us know how it goes.

Ben

 

[mlumz]

You need to remove all cards except AGP video card. Then boot up in Windows safe mode and remove all drivers to other cards and also video card. Reboot, reinstall drivers to AGP video card. Then add one card at a time and install drivers and reboot windows. This way windows will assign irq to each card and then hope that none of the pci card is conflicting with your AGP card. This should do the trick.

 

[TimeKeeper]

Smurfwow:

Simply leave your PCI 1 slot open.
And Reset configuration in your BIOS.
that is all to it!!!!!!!!