shared pci slot

[CJP]

My sound card locked up on me the other day. It was stuck on 2 speakers while I have a 4 speaker system. I reloaded the drivers and moved the card to another pci slot and it works now. However my Asus motherboard manual lists the pci slot I moved it to as "shared." Does this matter? Will it limit the bandwidth of my soundcard, or should I move the card back to the original slot?

Chris

 

[EeyoreX]

If it works, don't "fix" it. A soundcard is hardly a bandwidth hog. If you don't have problems with the current setup (seems you had them with your previous setup, why go back to a problem setup?) leave it alone. Also, what is shared? With another PCI slot? With onboard peripherals? It may be nothiong else is set to use the same resources.

\Dan

 

[alkemyst]

sounds like it could be power supply related.

My system locked the sound sometimes until I upgraded my psu.

Å

 

[CJP]

Originally posted by: EeyoreX
If it works, don't "fix" it. A soundcard is hardly a bandwidth hog. If you don't have problems with the current setup (seems you had them with your previous setup, why go back to a problem setup?) leave it alone. Also, what is shared? With another PCI slot? With onboard peripherals? It may be nothiong else is set to use the same resources.

\Dan

I think "shared" refers to another pci slot. I think I'll take your advice about not fixing something that's not broke though and leave it as is. I'm prone to tinker with my pc to the point where I get more greif than benefit

You could be right about the power supply. When I originally built the system I ordered an Enermax but they were out and I ended up with one I'd never heard of, "Sunny" or something like that.

 

[alkemyst]

PCI slots have 4 interrupts only, one is for the agp slot

now if you have more than 3 pci slots + agp one of those interrupts is used over.

On my TUV4X I get:

Interrupt A AGP, PCI4
Interrupt B PCI1, PCI5
Interrupt C PCI2, PCI6
Interrupt D PCI3

Plus some are shared with usb and other things.

If you are talking shared as in a ISA/PCI slot are physically next to each other that is a different matter.

Å