IRQ Holder for PCI Steering?

[Warlic]

Hello Everyone!
I noticed that my G400 16 MB is sharing IRQ 3 with "IRQ Holder for PCI Steering". Should I have reason to be concerned? I know G400 does not like to share resourses. How could I go about removing it from the G400 IRQ?



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[cjolley]

If you remove it Win will just put it back.
It is a driver Win uses to manage IRQs.
Not a problem at all!
chuck


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[Warlic]

Thanks for the information. That makes me feel a little better

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[jms]

Does your G400 really work 100% on IRQ3?
-jms

[Nuno]

Yes, Matrox cards are usually better in IQR 9 or higher. But if it works and you don´t notice anything stange, let ot be... I´ve got my G400 working in IRQ5, and it was fine... but just to be sure I put it in IRQ 12 (IRQ 10 now, with a sb live! installed)

[Warlic]

I actually moved my G400 to IRQ 9 last night, just to be safe. I did some reading and found out that Matrox cards don't like IRQs lower than 8. Pretty strange... It seems to be happy on IRQ 9

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[Sparko]

For more info on PCI steering see Micro$oft at: http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q182/6/04.ASP
and http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q182/6/28.ASP

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