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My Linksys Phoneline 10M card and my Geforce DDR are both sharing IRQ 11. While it still works, and it may not be taking a performance hit, it bothers me because I have a nice, sweet IRQ 7 completely open. I disabled my parallel port since I use network printers, and thus that IRQ is open.
So I went to change the IRQ by manually configuring the settings in the device manger. Oops - it can't be modified. So I reboot, go into the BIOS, turn "PnP aware OS" to "off" and select "PCI 2" to "IRQ 7" as opposed to Auto. I go into Windows and it's still on. I am sure that my NIC is in PCI 2...but it's still not changing to 7.
How do I force the IRQ to 7? I really would rather move my NIC than my Geforce becasue I know they are so, so sensitive to minor setting changes...
I tried going into safe mode but changing the NIC to 7 there resulted in my computer hanging on boot. The IRQ is free...
My Linksys Phoneline 10M card and my Geforce DDR are both sharing IRQ 11. While it still works, and it may not be taking a performance hit, it bothers me because I have a nice, sweet IRQ 7 completely open. I disabled my parallel port since I use network printers, and thus that IRQ is open.
So I went to change the IRQ by manually configuring the settings in the device manger. Oops - it can't be modified. So I reboot, go into the BIOS, turn "PnP aware OS" to "off" and select "PCI 2" to "IRQ 7" as opposed to Auto. I go into Windows and it's still on. I am sure that my NIC is in PCI 2...but it's still not changing to 7.
How do I force the IRQ to 7? I really would rather move my NIC than my Geforce becasue I know they are so, so sensitive to minor setting changes...
I tried going into safe mode but changing the NIC to 7 there resulted in my computer hanging on boot. The IRQ is free...