IRQ management under win2k- HELP- Bunch of stuff on IRQ 11

[GreenBeret]

Ok. I'm trying to find the cause of repitive crashes while playing counter-strike. No other programs crash my computer. It seems to hang and repeat a sound over and over. Someone said that they had this problem, and fixed it by switching from ACPI to Standard PC. So I tried this. My system became HIGHLY unstable as soon as I did anything using the NIC.

I reconfigured my system back to ACPI to get overall stability back. Then I looked at IRQ assignments.

Nvidia RIVA TNT- IRQ 11
HPT 370 Ultra DMA 100 Controller- IRQ 11
Macronix MX98715 Ethernet Adapter (ACPI)- IRQ 11
Creative SoundBlaster 16 Plug and play (WDM)- IRQ 5

How can I spread the IRQ's around some?

ABIT Ka7
athlon 750@863
WD 20.5 GB Xpert (ATA66)
256MB RAM.
Diamond Viper 550 (TNT w/ 16MB)

 

[skemlawn]

There is no need to switch them around. It is not an IRQ conflict unless one of you cards doesn't support ACPI for some reason. However if that were the case more stuff would likely crash and lookup. If it will make you feel better you can do the following. Turn off ACPI in the BIOS, then do a clean install of Win2k setting it up as a "standard PC" during install.

Also check the Microsoft Knowledge base for more info and definatley do a search here on the forums. There have been many other posts like this one.

 

[NFS4]

Do a search in either General Hardware of the OS forum...there about 200 threads on this. About 5 pop up each week.

 

[NOX]

Has far as stability in Counter-Strike I don?t know what your problem could be, but just to say this was never an issue for me. Counter-Strike always ran stable. You could try running your CPU at default, and see what type of results you get. Could also be your video card.

Your IRQ situation I would say is Ok from what I?ve seen. Just to let you know I have 6, yes 6 devices using IRQ 11, and my system is rock stable.

I can?t assign any IRQ?s to anyone particular peace of hardware because I have to use them all. If I can I really don?t know how because I?ve looked at all my options in my bios and in nowhere can I find the option to assign them.

If I understand it correctly if an IRQ is not being used (off) you can assign a particular hardware to use it. But if it is being used you can?t. Again, if I understand it correctly, the PCI, ISA slots on your motherboard determine the IRQ, which will be used. I remember being told that if Windows did the IRQ?s for you and they worked perfectly, to just leave it.

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hehe...I take to long to type.