Problem with ME and IRQ

[pylorns]

My AGP card shares Irq 11 and my network card share Irq 11, my computer will randomly loose its internet connection or, will lock up when trying to load something up, what would be the quickest way to solve this problem?

 

[pylorns]

BTW, its a Athlon 650
196 meg ram
Asus K7m mobo

 

[Varmot]

If you have a free IRQ that your network card will use then no problem. Just force it to use that IRQ. Go into device manager, select your network card, click on the resources tab, uncheck the use auto sttings, highlight interrupt request, click change and try another IRQ. Hope you can follow this.

Good luck

 

[ctll]

that's the new acpi crud. don't worry about it. i did, so i found out that it is "by design".
go search microsoft support if you wish.

go into bios, disable plug and play aware os and/or acpi, then assign an irq to your pci slot your nic is in (do this in bios if you can) try assigning one in bios, then try the plug*play and acpi, then try both together

(i can't remember exactly, but if you don't disable plugplay aware os, win will just take back the irq's you asssigned in bios i think)


course all i've ever seen of winme is the box it comes in thank god, from all the horror stories i've been reading

 

[pylorns]

Well, i was not able to change the resources in ME, would not allow me to. So i switched slots and it assigned another irq, but i am still trying to figure out how to assign irq to slots in the bios it isnt my choice, i'll take award over ami whatevermegatrend any day. Now my SB Live and my USB are sharing the 10 IRQ bu I havent had any problems with that. What I dont like about ME is the continual trend to take away the ability to manually install drivers and set your own settings.

 

[Heretik]

Double check your BIOS and make sure that any unused ports are disabled to free up some IRQ's. I was able to free up a couple by disabling my COM and Parallel ports....

 

[kuk]

Here we go again:

Quoted from 10 other posts of mine 😉


It's ACPI ... Windows' power management control system. I'll tell you a way to have your IRQ's back, but prepare to have some install disks ready. It won't format, but all your hardware will be rescanned and reinstalled.

Go to Control panel / System / Hardware.
Click on "Device Manager".
Double click "Computer", then right click "Advanced Configuration blablabla".
Go to Driver, then click on "update driver".
Click next.
Select "Display a list of blablabla".
Wait.
Click on "Show all hardware...".
Select Standard PC.
Now just follow the steps. After you reboot, all your hardware will be rescaned and stuff.


Some guy said that his Quake III performance doubled after this, mainly because his VGA card was sharing the same IRQ with sound/NIC/modem/usb stuff.