USB Controller wants same IRQ as sound card NO MATTER WHAT on Abit BH6 mb - please help!!

[John P]

My computer has random lock ups when playing Asherons's call. The only IRQ conflcit I have is with my Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live Value card and the USB controller. I have flashed the Bios to QN on the mb. There is an open IRQ but the stinkin USB refuses to take it. If I assign the PCI slot for the sound blaster to another value the USB follows, even if I move the sb to another slot. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Anyone found a solution to this?? I wish I could assign the USB controller it's own IRQ. This is driving me nuts!!

 

[Mday]

let's see, the usb controller uses the same IRQ as pci slots and 5. pci 1 shares with AGP. only PCI 2 and 3 are independent, and guess where my sb live is on my BM6 (essentially the same).

 

[John P]

That's the exact piece of information I was looking for, thanks a lot Mday!! I swapped my Realmagic card over to slot 5 and my SB Live over to slot 2 so it has it's own IRQ. Let's hope that fixes the lock ups!!

 

[Midnight Rambler]

My SB Live! and USB share an IRQ with no problems on a Rev.1.0 BH6, NV BIOS. Works great - the sweet sound of the V12 Ferrari in GPL resonates as I motor around Monza using my FF wheel. Couldn't be a more difficult test of the two items sharing than that, and no dropped frames at all.

 

[Auric]

Yeah, Abit says which slots should be used for devices that need their own IRQ. I assume Mday knows what the hell they're talking about. Anyhoo, I followed their instructions when I first built it and put my Live! on PCI 3 I think.