win2k irq help!

[ColdinfinitiE]

Please can anyone tell me how to change irqs in win2k.....the manula setting options are blanked out when i try to do this through device manager....any ideas???? thanx!!

 

[jasonlee123]

This is a known prob. There is no easy way. In my opinion there is no effective way. You have to turn off ACPI first. If there is another way I'd like to here this.

 

[Jorrit]

when you install windows 2000 with acpi enabled (default when your motherboard supports acpi) all pci cards will share irq's; you can't do anything about it. the reason you can't do anything about it has something to do with load balancing.
however i reinstalled win2k with acpi disabled (press f7 when asked if you have any additional controllers), so the pci cards won't share irq's. however it didn't solve the crackling noise problem.
you should also check your bios setting if you have a sb live; in that case you have to reserve irq5 for legacy device; worked out great for me.