Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote:
>
> What does USB have to do with this? I understand how diabling USB would free
> up an IRQ, but this Intel nic will always take IRQ11 unless I find a way to get
> the DOS setup program to run.
He probably wondered whether it would be USB taking also IRQ11
as it often does. From what you say, it looks like it's rather
the AGP card taking up IRQ11 too ...
> It doesn't even run when I shutdown and reboot in MS-DOS Mode.
If you have several computers available, could you try to remove
the AGP card, and put a PCI (or even ISA) video card in its place,
just the time needed to try your DOS setup program again ...
(don't forget to set your windows in VGA mode before)
This way, you would (maybe) eliminate the conflict that confuses
the DOS program, and you could (maybe) assign another IRQ
permanently in the card.
> I cannot change the IRQ's in my BIOS. My only BIOS options are to select
> "Legacy ISA" or "PCI/ISA PnP" for each IRQ. Needless to say, changing IRQ11
> from "PCI/ISA PnP" to "Legacy ISA" will only result in the nic (and likely my
> AGP card also) not working at all.
>
> Lastly, someone suggested that I might have an el-cheapo motherboard that isn't
> handling PCI right. Possible, but shouldn't be. I have a Soyo 5EHM v1.1 with
> Award BIOS v4.51PG on a VIA MVP3 chipset. It is supposedly PCI2.1 compliant.
> But it does do some weird stuff with it's drivers. One of the Windows drivers
> that come on the installation disk with the mobo is a "IRQ Remapping utility",
> so maybe it's IRQ's are all messed up.
I have the same VIA MVP3 chipset, and the same Award 4.51PG BIOS,
although
my mobo is a DFI. But I _can_ assign specific interrupts to specific
PCI
slots: I have a menu for each of the 4 PCI slots, where I can set IRQ
to some value, or to "AUTO" which lets the BIOS choose.
Another thing about the BIOS: if you have some option like "assign
IRQ to VGA card" or something like that, UNcheck it and see what
it assigned (or didn't) to the AGP card.
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Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse France
old Linux fan
