Changing IRQ of PnP device

[Mike Graham]

Pursuant to my 'long pause after connecting to internet' problem,
which was briefly helped by turning the power management off on the USB
hubs in the device manager, I find myself wondering if the fact that my
modem and USB system share the same IRQ (#24) might be an issue. I'd
like to change the IRQ that my modem uses (Lucent WinModem) so as to
check on this, but I don't see a way to do it. I see a message on the
Resources tab telling me that only the Truly Blessed should consider
changing it, but I don't see a way to actually *do* it.
Anyone?

Mike Graham
Canada
P4W

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

You turn off 'standby' features (ACPI) to get the IRQ edit, but I doubt you could find enough IRQ's manually to do all you want. Try
turning off Power Management on the NIC device too.

 

[Mike Graham]

You turn off 'standby' features (ACPI) to get the IRQ edit,
but I doubt you could find enough IRQ's manually to do all
you want.

Are you saying that it's all or nothing? You can't tell Windows to
use a particular IRQ for a particular device unless you shut PnP right
off and set *all* IRQs manually?

Try turning off Power Management on the NIC device too.

If the modem is the NIC device then power management is already
disabled. I took a quick look through and couldn't find any devices
that still had power management enabled.


You used to be able to get a report that listed devices and their
resources in Win 3.11 and other pre-PnP oldies. Can you still get that
report in XP? That would probably make my life easier if I go the
manual route.

Thanks for the reply,

Mike Graham
Canada
P4W