Help IRQ 3 being assigned to most hardware ....

[Eagle One]

Is there anyway to fix this?
It looks like my MB is assigning other values at boot up (screen flashjes to
fast to read) but windows is assigning IRQ 3 to whatever it can. (see end of
message)

I've tried unistalliong these various devices including the PIC driver, PCI
bus driver but this is what I get and windows doesn't tun well with
everything on IRQ 3!!


If you got suggestion please reply to (e-mail address removed)

thanks

Motherboard : ePox EP-8KTA3+
IRQ Usage Summary:
(ISA) 0 System timer
(ISA) 1 Easy Internet Keyboard
(ISA) 3 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
(PCI) 3 NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
(PCI) 3 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
(PCI) 3 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
(PCI) 3 VIA AC'97 Audio Controller (WDM)
(PCI) 3 Texas Instruments PCI-1420 CardBus Controller
(PCI) 3 Texas Instruments PCI-1420 CardBus Controller
(ISA) 3 Novatel Wireless CDMA 1.9GHz Modem Parent ** This connected to
the "PCI"-1420 above why ISA here ?
(ISA) 3 Novatel Wireless CDMA 1.9GHz Modem
(ISA) 3 Novatel Wireless CDMA 1.9GHz Status Port
(PCI) 3 ATI TV Wonder Video Capture
(PCI) 3 HPT370 UDMA/ATA100 RAID Controller
(ISA) 4 Communications Port (COM1)
(ISA) 8 System CMOS/real time clock
(PCI) 10 ATI TV Wonder Audio Capture
(ISA) 13 Numeric data processor
(ISA) 14 Primary IDE Channel
(ISA) 15 Secondary IDE Channel

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

Are you having any problems because of this? NO? Then leave well enough
alone. Windows XP knows how to manage the hardware just fine!

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

I have 3 items on IRQ 16, 2 on IRQ 19, 2 on IRQ 20, 2 on IRQ 21 and 2 on
IRQ 22.

Please note that I have no problems with these multiple assignments. Most
others don't either. When push comes to shove, you will probably find out
that you have driver problems.

If you really want to have some fun, disable the service that controls this.
Your computer will not likely even boot!

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

At the bios level, that is correct. At the O/S level it is an entirely
different story!

 

[steve]

IRQ's over 15 are virtual IRQ's...they are not the same as
the real ones. As far as the bios is concerned, all of
his devices are sharing resources.

I would advise the above and make a com port use that
irq. Also, many bioses let you assign irq's to specific
slots.