My 2940UW, with the newest ASPI layer and newest drivers shared IRQs
just fine in 2K. You can look at the MB manual and see which slots
the BIOS itself shares between the slots. It won't change what
Winders says is going on but it is better to put the cards in slots
that the MB manual says don't share with other slots or onboard stuff
like USB or 1394 stuff. Ultimately the BIOS has the final say even
tho Win will tell you different things.
You can assign IRQs where ever you like with a different Windows HAL;
ie. Standard PC, but you will probably lose some of the functionality
in power management. To do so, go into the device manager, expand the
+ next to computer, and you'll probably see ACPI Uniprocessor PC.
That is your HAL. You can drill down and change drivers bringing up a
list which includes Standard PC. Installing that one will;
1 Necessitate reinstalling every single driver for the MB, Video,
SCSI, NIC, everything, and I do mean everything.
It will redetect every single device and chip on the MB, mouse,
keyboard, everything.
2 It will let you decide which slot gets which IRQ.
Alternately, newer motherboards have APIC which makes available to
windows more IRQs. In technical terms it's called a shitload.
For instance I believe the last time I looked, my 29160 is running on
IRQ 22 and my old 2940UW is running on 23.
If your MB is more than a year or so old, don't bother looking.
If it is pretty recent, go into the BIOS and enable APIC.
You will still have your ACPI power management functions and all the
cards and onboard stuff will get it's own IRQ.
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:43:20 -0700, "Rod" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I have completed a clean install of Windows 2000 Pro. The
>system resets frequently. I have four 'plug and play'
>interfaces (Video, SCSI, network & modem) trying to share
>the same IRQ (11).
>
>My Windows Me plug and play manager has all of these
>devices assigned to different IRQs.
>
>I have disabled and reinstalled the interfaces several
>times, each time the interface would be assigned another
>IRQ, but would revert to IRQ 11 after a new boot.
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