IRQ CONFLICT!

[Bubba]

I am having problems with assigning IRQ's.My SBLive 5.1 is sharing an IRQ w/my Radeon 64mg DDR card.I am trying to assign the SB to an IRQ of it's own(like 5) but only the emulator will move not the live.Can anyone help please?

Asus A7M266
1.2 gig T-bird (Axia Y)@1305 - 46*c
SB Live 5.1
Radeon 64mg DDR
Linksys etherfast 10/100
Toshiba cable modem
Creative modem blaster flash 56PCI
Plexwriter 16x CDRW
Creative 52x CDR
DVD player

Also I have a 300w PS with Antec 830.Do I need to upgrade or how can I tell if it enough.Can it ruin anything with out me knowing or would I know if it's not enough?I Am trying to get a 400w but dont know what to get.

 

[Daniel ~]

Moved post to "AMD Motherboards"

 

[Fiz]

The only way I know of to reassign an IRQ is to actaully move the card. I had 7 things on IRQ 10, the only way I got some of them off of it was to move th cards to different slots. Good luck.

Fiz

 

[djcg]

They shouldn't be conflicting, but actually "sharing" the same IRQ. This is normal for the SB Live 5.1 card, and there really isn't any way to change either one's settings. The system should run fine with these sharing the IRQs... but alas that isn't always the case. I had uber lotta problems with my KT7A running a SB Live 5.1. VIA vs SB Live 5.1 is a rough battle!

I lost the battle.. I sold my board..

 

[Prophet]

Why not just manually assign your irq's in the bios and then turn off plug and play OS in the bios to. Whatever slot your Sblive is on put it to 5. That should fix it I think.

 

[AMDGuy]

Prophet (Jul 05, 2001 07:38 p.m.):
Why not just manually assign your irq's in the bios and then turn off plug and play OS in the bios to. Whatever slot your Sblive is on put it to 5. That should fix it I think.

That won't work with ACPI. ACPI ignores what's set in the BIOS and assigns it's own settings.

Moving cards is the only solution that I know of.

 

[Akumu X]

if you have ACPI then I really wouldn't bother.
I had the same problem with my GeForce 3 sharing IRQ9 with 4 other things...including my build in sound.
I changed it to IRQ11 and I think I benchmarked 10marks higher in 3dmark2k1.

If you really really want to change them and have ACPI on then you have to do this. (This is what I did for my Win2k box)
Go to your devie manager.
Drop the computer down
It should say something like ACPI computer
Click on Properties
Click on the Driver tab
Click "Update Driver"
Click "next"
Click "display a list yadda yadda yadda"
Click "next"
Click "show all hardware of this device"
you should be on the upper most option under manufacturers
under "models" you'll want to switch to "Standard computer" and the "next"
it should popup a warning...disregard it.
it should ask you to restart your computer...do so
when your computer starts up it should (mine did) start up with no video drivers and things running. you should get a bar run across your screen and it will ask you if you want to restart again...do so.
If it doesn't ask you to restart...restart anyway.
this time every thing will load up fine and you'll have a "Standard Computer"

Though, like I said. The performace in REALLY minimal.
Do so at your own discretion.