S
Shane
Got a strange comp question for you. I installed an AMD
Athalon XP 2400+ on a Shuttle motherboard, AK32V/N with
Windows 2000 and one stick 512 PC2700. It was screamin,
well, to me anyway. I installed everything again on a
zeroed out drive, putting in the Drivers for the
integrated Ethernet, Six USB 2.0 ports, and sound--ACPI
put everything on irq 11, not such a big deal. Then I put
in the 64mb Radeon All-IN-One, then the modem. It started
getting junked up the more I put in as ACPI assigned them
both to irq 11 as well. When the modem is going the
screen gets glitchy or goes blank. The sound doesn't work
at all. And, don't get me started on trying to print,
scan, or use my remote on the USBs. I go in to change the
irq with no options whatsoever to do so.
I went to Microsoft and found out that this is by design.
Apparently, the irqs are set from the ACPI in the BIOS,
which is passing different irqs to Windows 2000, 7,9,10
and such, but they all get converted to 11 by windows.
Windows tells me it's putting the hardware on other irqs
(during the multiple reinstalls of each device), which
seem to be assigned in device manager, but that's only
good until restart when everything is back to 11. So then
I thought, slight as the chance may be, that it was a
virus corrupting windows. I zeroed out another drive, then
did a fresh install on that drive and got the exact same
problem with no outside corruption possible.
Then, I try to manually change my hardware abstraction
layer from ACPI to Standard and, as I feared, since ACPI
is unchangeablly defaulted in the CMOS, it chose irq 11
for everything again. So, I lost the controllability of
ACPI without even gaining the benefit I needed to...say,
dial-up and see the web pages. I can't print and hear
music. I can't play a game and hear the sound, or see
clear video.
Help one, help all; it's going to be a smelly fire if I
set blaze to this computer like I'm thinkin' I might.
Thanks!
Athalon XP 2400+ on a Shuttle motherboard, AK32V/N with
Windows 2000 and one stick 512 PC2700. It was screamin,
well, to me anyway. I installed everything again on a
zeroed out drive, putting in the Drivers for the
integrated Ethernet, Six USB 2.0 ports, and sound--ACPI
put everything on irq 11, not such a big deal. Then I put
in the 64mb Radeon All-IN-One, then the modem. It started
getting junked up the more I put in as ACPI assigned them
both to irq 11 as well. When the modem is going the
screen gets glitchy or goes blank. The sound doesn't work
at all. And, don't get me started on trying to print,
scan, or use my remote on the USBs. I go in to change the
irq with no options whatsoever to do so.
I went to Microsoft and found out that this is by design.
Apparently, the irqs are set from the ACPI in the BIOS,
which is passing different irqs to Windows 2000, 7,9,10
and such, but they all get converted to 11 by windows.
Windows tells me it's putting the hardware on other irqs
(during the multiple reinstalls of each device), which
seem to be assigned in device manager, but that's only
good until restart when everything is back to 11. So then
I thought, slight as the chance may be, that it was a
virus corrupting windows. I zeroed out another drive, then
did a fresh install on that drive and got the exact same
problem with no outside corruption possible.
Then, I try to manually change my hardware abstraction
layer from ACPI to Standard and, as I feared, since ACPI
is unchangeablly defaulted in the CMOS, it chose irq 11
for everything again. So, I lost the controllability of
ACPI without even gaining the benefit I needed to...say,
dial-up and see the web pages. I can't print and hear
music. I can't play a game and hear the sound, or see
clear video.
Help one, help all; it's going to be a smelly fire if I
set blaze to this computer like I'm thinkin' I might.
Thanks!