IRQ Problem (santa cruz also) HELP!!

[xWeston]

I just bought a santa cruz card... i put it in and my system would no longer boot, and stuck on the win2k starting screen so i started moving cards around and things, took out my western digital firewire card and now it works.... I got the drivers installed and everything, but the only problem is - about 5 devices are on irq 7, and one of which is the santa cruz. Whenever i am playing music, and doing the smallest tasks, the sound will stutter, and i hear that this is from being shared...

devices on irq 7 are
Raid controller
network card
video card
via usb controller
and santa cruz


system is
Win2k
abit kt7a-raid with 2x30gig drives, Raid0
tnt2ultra agp
linksys nic pci slot 3
santa cruz pci slot 6
my firwire card was pci slot 2

what slot should i put this in or what should i do to make it have its own irq?

Weston

 

[xWeston]

bump - i need help with this badly

 

[flyers1]

When Win2k installs, by default it sets up ACPI(I think is what it is...drawing a blank here) which for whatever reason, sets all your devices to one IRQ. You can disable this by pressing F5 during install at about the time it prompts you to press F6 to install additional storage drivers and selecting standard PC.

Some people have probelms with it, others don't. I disabled it myself because it just sounds like a bad idea to me.

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to fis your problem. Have you tried the latest SC drivers? Maybe updated VIA 4in1 will help?

Anyone else have a suggestion?