Manually changing IRQ's in WinXP

[MrMax2000]

Don't know whether this belongs here as might not be highly technical, but it is to me anyway. At the moment i've got problems with my Geforce 3 card sharing IRQ18 with my Hercules Gametheatre XP. Question is how do i reassign them so that they aren't sharing the IRQ?

My setup is as follows:
Tyan Tiger MP
Dual Athlon MP1600+
512Mb ECC DDR
Geforce 3 (CL)
Hercules Gametheatre XP
Hauppauge WinTV card
3Com Network card
60Gb Maxtor HD
DVD
Burner
etc.

Can i assign them in the bios? The only options to do with IRQ's is reserving specific ones - says that they can be reserved for legacy ISA cards (although the motherboard has no ISA slots).

I found a way that involves basically reinstalling XP and disabling ACPI on install to fix this problem, but i'd much rather do it an easier way. Another suggestion was to disable ACPI in bios, then reinstall ACPI driver in XP to Standard PC driver, then reinstall all other drivers after that. However, if i disable ACPI in bios, WinXP won't even boot.

Can anyone help me - i'm tearing my hair out.

Cheers

MrMax


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[potz]

just swap your pci cards around. there's interrupt pins, it might be documented in your manual or something. that's the way you changethe irqs your cards use. you have to physically move the card. just try to keep your graphics card by itself, and usually it's a good idea to keep the network card by itself. you can go into device manager and right click on the acpi entry and change it to standard pc.