My understanding is that PCI works on the concept of interrupts A, B, C, and
D. Your BIOS (PNP) then mates each of the letters to a numeric interrupt we
all know and love, generally through a ritual akin to voodoo. On my
motherboard (ASUS P3B), the manual states that the AGP slot, USB, and PCI
slot 1 all share the same interrupt. Ergo, my suggestion is "Try a
different slot."
I've never had a problem with my AGP and PCI boards sharing interrupts but I
wouldn't be surprised if a problem did crop up.
Matt
>
> 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. It doesn't even run when I
> shutdown and reboot
> in MS-DOS Mode. (Intel is no help, BTW. I've had a message
> posted on their
> support forum for 2 weeks without a reply.)
>
> 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.
>
