Win2000 / Multiple devices, same IRQ

[jleboeuf]

Anandtech'rs:

I am having a problem w/ my Geforce2MX video card. Windows 2000 seems to assign many devices to the same IRQ. Right now I have my SB 512, SMC 10/100 Network card, USB HUB, & Geforce2MX all sharing IRQ 11. I went through most of the steps to TRY to correct this, but the same results occur. Let me tell you what's up:

I disabled Plug and Play OS in my bios and reinstalled Win2000. This did not help, devices still chose 11.

Moved devices around; this helped and gave the video card an independent IRQ. I updated to SP2 and installed some drivers. Back to square one.

I guess my question is HOW THE HELL DO I FIX THIS PROBLEM????

Any / All help is greatly appreciated. Here are comp. specs.

MSI K7 Master (pcb v1.1) (bios v1.1)
AMD Athlon T-bird 1.333 GIG 266 Mhz
512 DDR PC2100 RAM
ASUS 7100 (Geforce2MX 200/400 32 MG RAM)
SMC 10/100 Network Card
Sound Blaster PCI 512
Maxtor 40 GIG HD
IBM Deskstar 75GXP 15 GIG
HP 8200 Burner
I/O Magic 50X CD-ROM

Thank you once again!

 

[bozo1]

Some BIOS's allow you to assign the IRQ to the slot. Don't know if yours does.

Having problems? PCI is supposed to work this way.

 

[jleboeuf]

The problem is my AGP video card dislikes sharing it's IRQ.

 

[bacillus]

these muntiple devices sharing the same irq is normal for win2k!

 

[jleboeuf]

Then how come Geforce2 lock-ups are related to it? I know I have gotten it to work before w/ my ASUS A7V -- It worked fine after this. Same solution to that situation is not working here.

 

[Vegito]

Using multiple device in 1 IRQ is also through ACPI.. try disabling ACPI and see if that helps..

 

[bacillus]

have you tried using AGPx1 transfers??

 

[jleboeuf]

no on the AGP transfers; and i'd really hate to turn off ACPI
Is there any other way to fix this?