Cracking Up........resource conflict

[Rick]

Hi,
I have been wresteling with a f%"%"%£" ATI graphics card all day and
now at 12.30am I am loosing it. I have a pentium iii 450, Win2k
with nothing else other than the ATI card in it and it has to chose
resources which are already in use. How can i force this stupid rage/fury
expert 128 stupid stupid
card to go away and use some other unallocated resources. Please help
John

Is it a PCI or AGP card? If AGP, do you also have a PCI card
installed in PCI slot 1? If so, move the PCI card to a different slot.

Rick

 

[John]

Hi,
I have been wresteling with a f%"%"%£" ATI graphics card all day and
now at 12.30am I am loosing it. I have a pentium iii 450, Win2k
with nothing else other than the ATI card in it and it has to chose
resources which are already in use. How can i force this stupid rage/fury
expert 128 stupid stupid
card to go away and use some other unallocated resources. Please help
John

 

[John]

Hi Rick,
Its an AGP card and I dont have any PCI cards installed now.
Earlier on today I removed a modem and nic in the hope of freeing up the
troublesome resource, but now I see it is allocated already to IDE drives. I
will have to reallocate the AGP resources but when I look in device manager
the "automatic allocate" box is ticked and the whole thin greyed out. How
could I manually allocate available resources under win2k?
John

 

[Rick]

What resource is showing as shared? IRQ?

Hi Rick,
Its an AGP card and I dont have any PCI cards installed now.
Earlier on today I removed a modem and nic in the hope of freeing up the
troublesome resource, but now I see it is allocated already to IDE drives. I
will have to reallocate the AGP resources but when I look in device manager
the "automatic allocate" box is ticked and the whole thin greyed out. How
could I manually allocate available resources under win2k?
John

 

[John]

D000-D0FF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.hardware
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 1:20 AM

 

[Rick]

For a video card?! Bizarre. What's it sharing with?

 

[John]

It is sharing with the Via AGP chipset.......Im going on severley depleted
memory here.(lol like a lunatic!)

 

[TMack]

Hi,
I have been wresteling with a f%"%"%£" ATI graphics card all day and
now at 12.30am I am loosing it. I have a pentium iii 450, Win2k
with nothing else other than the ATI card in it and it has to chose
resources which are already in use. How can i force this stupid rage/fury
expert 128 stupid stupid
card to go away and use some other unallocated resources. Please help
John

Have you tried uninstalling BOTH video card AND Via CPU to AGP controller -
then reboot and let win2k re-detect both of them? It may then sort out the
conflict. Also try different agp drivers - use the MS 'via tech agp to cpu'
driver insted of the via 4in1. If that doesn't work try an 'upgrade
reinstall'.

Tony

 

[John]

Thanks Tony, Ill give that a try.

Have you tried uninstalling BOTH video card AND Via CPU to AGP controller -
then reboot and let win2k re-detect both of them? It may then sort out the
conflict. Also try different agp drivers - use the MS 'via tech agp to cpu'
driver insted of the via 4in1. If that doesn't work try an 'upgrade
reinstall'.

Tony