G400 irq probs with 2000

[snowwons]

Yes, thats right, irq problems again. Let me explain. First off, I had this exacts same
problem in Win 98, after playing around for awhile, and help from a few members of
this board, we got it all fixed right by over-riding the pnp of Win 98 and the bios. So
I try to install Win 2000, everything works fine, or so I think. Anyway, my sound
card, g400, scsi card (onboard), ethernet (onboard), pci to usb host controller and
acpi compliant system is all sharing irq 9... btw... I did not change anything in the
bios when switching to win 98 to win 2000.

Things I tried...
1.) Changing back to PNP system in the bios. This did nothing.
2.) Trying to manually change the irq of the sound and video card. This did nothing.
3.) Changing the irq within win 2000. Didn't even let me try, and also caused a lock
up.

What its doing...
Basically it will randomly lock up with a high pitch sound coming from the speakers.

What I have..
Asus p2b-ls motherboard flashed to ver 10
Matrox G400 Max with win 2k drivers
Sound Blaster Live! value
PIII 500 o/c to 560
224 mb memory
9.1 gb seagate ST39102LW LVD scsi drive
Pioneer scsi cdrom
56k usr external modem
21 Nokia mon and 17 Sony mon

Thanks for any help.
Matt
snowwons@hotmail.com

one last thing, sorry about spelling typo mistakes, i haven't installed ms office 2k yet =o)...

[Scytale]

You could try reinstalling W2K with the legacy PnP hal instead of ACPI.

[This message has been edited by Scytale (edited 09 February 2000).]

[Maggi]

no lcue on Win2k, but just in case you should update your MoBo Bios to 1011 LS ...

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Cheers,
Maggi

Despite my nickname causing confusion, I am not female ...

[Gurm]

This IRQ sharing is 100% NORMAL.

You are now using what is known as "polling", a feature enabled by the ACPI HAL.

All your devices are supposed to share an IRQ because the devices are no longer allowed (in theory) to grab full system priority and freeze the CPU.

What you are experiencing is either:

1. A side-effect of overclocking. Try unclocking the chip to see if that helps.

2. A side-effect of the built-in Sound Blaster Live! drivers (which are fine for many but bad for some).

3. A side-effect of not having an up-to-date BIOS.

4. Another hardware conflict.

Did you "upgrade" Win98 to Win2k? If so, try reinstalling from scratch, since upgrades are notoriously bad.

- Gurm

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