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IRQ number? help!

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jdreher

Member
I'm having trouble with a machine I just built...everything runs fine when I start up in windows 2000, I've installed some programs and things seems to work fine....but if I run something pretty intensive (the latest thing I've done recently that has caused the problem the fastest is try to open Illustrator and Photoshop at the same time, close them, if they open at all, and then try it again) the computer locks up and the screen freezes. One peculiar thing that first made me thought it was a hard drive problem was that when the computer locked up, the hard drive LED on the front of my case stayed lit up (but it doesn't sound like there's any disk activity when this happens). I've verified the disk is healthy with IBM's disk checking software. One thing I do notice, though, is that four separate Serial Bus Controllers and the display controller are all sharing the same IRQ nuimber (11)...could this be the problem?

I'm running:
Athlon XP 1900+
EPoX 8KHA+
512MB DDR Crucial PC2100
LiteOn DVD
IBM 60GXP Hard Drive, 40 GB
Linksys NIC
Floppy Drive
ATI AIW Radeon 8500DV

I've tried this so far to fix the problem:
Disabled UDMA
Updated VIA's IDE driver
Tested the heck out of the drive to find out its ok


Any suggestions/help??

Thanks.
 
Ok....I read the FAQ...does anyone think IRQ sharing is the problem or are there any other ideas out there on what might be causing the lock ups?
 
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