Resource conflict on new motherboard

[Hicklebird]

My roommate and I both purchased new Giga-Byte GA-7NNXP
motherboards with Nforce 2 based chipsets. He installed
Windows XP Pro and me (cheap) used Windows XP Home and the
results are this: his motherboard the GA-7NNXP is up and
running and mine, well, nope. The Gameport on the
Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum is conflicting with the
Nvidia (nforce) onboard ide controller. My roomate and I
have the same audio card. The only difference at this
point is he installed his Audigy card in PCI slot 4, mine
is in slot 3, does this really make a difference? Also I
went out and purchased Windows XP Pro and did a clean
install and had the same results...Game port on soundcard
conflicting with onboard nvidia ide controller. Yes the
game port is sitting there in Device manager with an
exclamation point and the message that there are not
enough resources for the game port to be enabled.

I won't give you the long story and many hours spent
troubleshooting this but let's just say that after
installing the drivers for the Audigy 2 that ide
controller didn't want to work and had to boot up in safe
mode several times.

Anyone have any ideas how to resolve this?

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
My roommate and I both purchased new Giga-Byte GA-7NNXP
motherboards with Nforce 2 based chipsets. He installed
Windows XP Pro and me (cheap) used Windows XP Home and the
results are this: his motherboard the GA-7NNXP is up and
running and mine, well, nope. The Gameport on the
Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum is conflicting with the
Nvidia (nforce) onboard ide controller. My roomate and I
have the same audio card. The only difference at this
point is he installed his Audigy card in PCI slot 4, mine
is in slot 3, does this really make a difference? Also I
went out and purchased Windows XP Pro and did a clean
install and had the same results...Game port on soundcard
conflicting with onboard nvidia ide controller. Yes the
game port is sitting there in Device manager with an
exclamation point and the message that there are not
enough resources for the game port to be enabled.

I won't give you the long story and many hours spent
troubleshooting this but let's just say that after
installing the drivers for the Audigy 2 that ide
controller didn't want to work and had to boot up in safe
mode several times.

Anyone have any ideas how to resolve this?
.Well, the video card eats a PCI slot next to the VGA,

typically. This is an IRQ conflict, a serious one. The
most serious I've heard of. It is more characteristic of
Wib2K,which is riddled with this sort of thing. You might
have to, in BIOS, set to STANDARD PC mode, instead of ACPI
PC mode. This can be done in a clean install; The
entry 'Plug and Play OS' should be set to 'NO' when dong
the clean install, at the blue screen, press f5. You will
see a list of options where the correct PC (ACPI NOT
activated) can be chosen;
OR: after setting the mobo BIOS to 'NO' Plug and Play, go
to device manager (Control Panel>System>Hardware, cl,
on 'Computer', the icon @ top, then double-click on 'ACPI-
PC', then to 'Driver', @ 'update driver', select 'display
a list of all known drivers for this device', then 'show
all hardware of this device class' Here a list is
displayed from which you can choose the correct PC mode.
this shouldn't be happening, but that's no help. do this,
should do it.
Have fun
civil

 

[Eric Burns]

Creative labs makes some of the worst drivers I have ever seen. I have had failures because of IRQ conflicts on an SB-Live 5.1.
Generally, most motherboards hard-wire certain PCI slots to certain IRQs, however after reviewing your manual, it appears under Pnp/PCI Configurations, yoi can manually assign them
The manual doesn't go into details on some of the advanced chipset options / etc, so I can't determin if you can enable multiprocessor specifications, which would theoretically double your IRQs (the additional 16 - if you could actually use them all, are all one one hardware pin still however).
Also, you might want to free up some IRQs by disabling any hardware you're not using, such as the ac97 audio, onchip LAN, onchip 1394, onboard H/W Serial ATA, onboard Gigabit LAN, onboard serial port 1 and 2, onboard parallel Port, USB Host Controller, Midi, etc
Luckely your bios seems to allow you to disable a lot of items individually.

 

[chris.catt]

Hi, you state your own answer, move the soundcard to another slot. Only
change the settings to a standard PC as a last resort after you've tried
everything else....
Chris C
Creative labs makes some of the worst drivers I have ever seen. I have had
failures because of IRQ conflicts on an SB-Live 5.1.
Generally, most motherboards hard-wire certain PCI slots to certain IRQs,
however after reviewing your manual, it appears under Pnp/PCI
Configurations, yoi can manually assign them
The manual doesn't go into details on some of the advanced chipset options
/ etc, so I can't determin if you can enable multiprocessor specifications,
which would theoretically double your IRQs (the additional 16 - if you could
actually use them all, are all one one hardware pin still however).
Also, you might want to free up some IRQs by disabling any hardware you're
not using, such as the ac97 audio, onchip LAN, onchip 1394, onboard H/W
Serial ATA, onboard Gigabit LAN, onboard serial port 1 and 2, onboard
parallel Port, USB Host Controller, Midi, etc
Luckely your bios seems to allow you to disable a lot of items individually.