IRQ setting in W2K

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Dear,

When looking to hardware setting, I see that 6 devices are
set to IRQ 7 (include Matrox video card), and in the
another hand, IRQ 2,3,5,11,15 are free... so, I would like
to know how I can manually set IRQ for devices ?
PS : all devices are plug and Play :
Matrox G400,
SCSI board Tekram,
Integrated C-Media sound card,
Integrated USB controller,
etc...

 

[Daniel Chang [MSFT]]

If it isn't broken, don't fix it. In general there's no harm in IRQ
sharing. PnP devices should pick their resources automatically.

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: Dear,
:
: When looking to hardware setting, I see that 6 devices are
: set to IRQ 7 (include Matrox video card), and in the
: another hand, IRQ 2,3,5,11,15 are free... so, I would like
: to know how I can manually set IRQ for devices ?
: PS : all devices are plug and Play :
: Matrox G400,
: SCSI board Tekram,
: Integrated C-Media sound card,
: Integrated USB controller,
: etc...

 

[Guest]

I think IRQ is set by the Plug'n'Pray BIOS, and
the only ways influence that are:
a) move add-in cards(s) to different slot(s)
b) change interrupt assignment in the BIOS
setup -- sometimes callad INTA, INTB,
INTC, INTD

But as it was already posted, you might
just want to leave it alone. ;-)