VisionTek Radeon 9100 IRQ Problems

[jrenna]

I just replaced my All in Wonder Card with a VisionTek Radeon 9100 AGP card. I followed instructions about removing old card and drivers and adding new card and drivers. When I re-booted, I received a device failure error message and only VGA resolution. I read where this card likes IRQ 11 and does not like to share IRQ. I saw IRQ 11 was also used by my on-board Ethernet adapter, so I disabled Ethernet in Bios, rebooted, and everything was fine with video card. I have a Soyo Dragon MB and Windows XP Professional. Now I need to know how to change IRQ for ethernet, so I can re-enable it. Device manager is greyed out for resource settings for both the video card and the ethernet adapter.

Thanks.

 

[fell8]

Nowadays most motherboards allow you to manually set IRQs to specific PCI slots in the BIOS. So, you'll prolly need a PCI LAN card.

Doug

 

[jrenna]

Thanks for your reply. I was thinking of that. My MB won't let me change IRQ's, but I hope that by moving the LAN Card from slot to slot, I can get it to use something other than IRQ 11.