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**ayoub_ibrahim** · 2 September 2001, 03:13

When playing games the system freezes hard

the devices all sharing an irq is normal with win2k.
do you have SP2 installed?
did you install the AGP miniport driver?

**The PIT** · 2 September 2001, 04:24

The Sblive has a few problems with acpi sometimes freezing being one of them. Sometimes downloading the directx control applet and disabling the debugging code left in directx 8 solves the problem.
The best solution probably is to disable acpi. What you can do before disabling it is going to the device manager and set your computer to standard computer under the the computer icon. Left win2k redetect everything reboot and then disable acpi. This may not work and you may have to re-install win2k.

**Dilitante1** · 2 September 2001, 07:55

looks familiar.......

I had a similar issue when PNP was disabled in the BIOS on my Soyo 6BA+, after enabling, everything had its own IRQ........just a thought.

-Dil

**EecheE** · 3 September 2001, 20:56

little success

Hey guys, thanks for replying.

I changed my pc to a "standard pc" then disabled ACPI in the mobo bios. The videocard moved to IRQ5, which is good.

However, the sound card and nic are STILL on irq 11 (along with USB).

I haven't installed the liveware drivers for my sblive. Could this help me move the IRQs?

Changing "PnP OS" to yes/no in the bios doesn't help.

ayoub_ibrahim: I installed agpgart before installing the g400 drivers. I installed sp2 and still no help.

I moved my sound card to a different slot and its IRQ didn't change.

My new IRQ list: :
IRQ Number Device
5 Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead - English
12 SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller
11 SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller
11 Creative SB Live! Basic (WDM)
11 Macronix MX98715 Family Fast Ethernet Adapter (ACPI) #2
14 Primary IDE Channel
15 Secondary IDE Channel
1 PC/AT Enhanced PS/2 Keyboard (101/102-Key)
3 Communications Port (COM2)
4 Communications Port (COM1)
6 Standard floppy disk controller
8 System CMOS/real time clock
13 Numeric data processor
10 MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device

Anything else you can suggest?

-EecheE

**Rags** · 3 September 2001, 21:47

**guillenv** · 5 September 2001, 06:32

you should remove your sound card and NIC.

start/shutdown win2K

reinsert your cards one first

start/shutdown win2K

then the other.

that should fix your problem.

**The PIT** · 5 September 2001, 06:47

Some boards share there slots with a another device. The Abit KT7 133A for instance slots 4 and 6 share there irq's with the usb controller so in that case you would get three devices sharing whether you enabled acpi or not. You can move cards around if you've got room if you haven't like me you've got to work out which card like sharing with what.
You haven't mentioned whether your machine is still freezing.

**EecheE** · 6 September 2001, 01:15

fixed (i think)

I had my PC as a standard PC. After I enabled "ACPI aware OS" in bios, the nic and soundard magically moved to different IRQs. Win2k is still not ACPI aware, but telling the bios that it was did the trick. Dunno why it works that way.

I played CS for 3 hours straight and NO lockups.

Status:
IRQ11 = usb1 + nic
IRQ12 = usb2 + nic
IRQ5 = g400 max

I can live with this.

Oh, hey thanks again for all your help

-EecheE

**The PIT** · 6 September 2001, 03:19

who cares if it works. Happy computing

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Random freezes. All devices sharing IRQ 11.!! Please help.

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