Manually Change IRQ

[Peter]

I'm running WinXP Pro on a Dell laptop. Is there any way to manually
change the IRQ that WinXP is assigning to a card in my PCMCIA slot?

In Win98 I recall it was easy to manually change IRQ assignments butit
does not seem possible in XP. Or, am I missing something?

Peter

 

[Ron Martell]

I'm running WinXP Pro on a Dell laptop. Is there any way to manually
change the IRQ that WinXP is assigning to a card in my PCMCIA slot?

In Win98 I recall it was easy to manually change IRQ assignments butit
does not seem possible in XP. Or, am I missing something?

Peter

No easy way at all.

What specific problem or symptom are you encountering that you believe
is associated with the IRQ being used by the PCMCIA slot?


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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[Peter]

No easy way at all.

What specific problem or symptom are you encountering that you believe
is associated with the IRQ being used by the PCMCIA slot?

I have a wireless network PCMCIA card (Orinoco Gold a/b/g) that can not
share an IRQ with any other device. WinXP has decided to assign it to IRQ
9 along with several other devices also on IRQ 9 so the wireless card does
not work properly. If I can switch it to a different/open IRQ address it
will work.

Peter

 

[Pavel A.]

AFAIK, XP assigns a shareable IRQ to a pcmcia device only if there is no
other free IRQ.
So your system simply does not have other free IRQs.
If this is not the case - there is a registry parameter for pcmcia bus
driver, that specifies what IRQs it can use (sorry, can't find it right
now).

-- PA