IRQ's and WIN2K

[compuwiz1]

I have too many things riding on IRQ 11.

I'm sure the memory range causes them to work, but there are just more things on that particular IRQ, than I like.

My vid card, nic, usb hub, and sound card, are all living on IRQ 11, by default.

I want to change things around.
Could someone please refresh my memory? 🙂

 

[Smilin]

You are confused, grasshoppa. Your computer is not an 80386.

The ACPI (or even APIC) HAL that you are almost certainly using has no problem with multiple components being on the "same" IRQ nor will it allow you to change this manually.

Back in the day and IRQ was an actual physical line straight to the cpu. When a device wanted attention it would raise voltage on the line to send an interrupt. Today the communication takes place over multiple lines simultaneously and is actually a packet based form of communication.


The simpleness:
You're fine just how you are. If you are experiencing any sort of problems then something else is the cause, not this.

🙂

 

[Nothinman]

I have too many things riding on IRQ 11.

I'm sure the memory range causes them to work, but there are just more things on that particular IRQ, than I like.

Smilin's comment about you being confused is an understatement, the memory ranges of the devices have nothing to do with their IRQs. And it's impossible to change an IRQ without physically moving the device and even then it might just move to be shared with another device, your motherboard manual might tell you how your IRQs are physically routed but it's a lot of work for no real gain.