David Taylor wrote: > > and could you PLEASE elaborate on the IRQ sharing config > > particulars that > > I asked about in the earlier posts. in this thread please as it is the > > only thing you have said on point. > > Nick, have you tried physically moving the card into another slot to see if > it pulls (polls the bus for) a different IRQ? > Often times the top slot and the bottom slot of the PCI bus is shared with > an onboard device's IRQ. Also go into the bios and disable the > motherboard's Com 2 if it not being used. That should free up IRQ3. > Hopefully the modem will use that. > Try this to see what the hardware devices' preferred IRQ's are. I am > sure there are other methods of getting PnP info but this one works fine > for me and I have found it to be fairly accurate in identifying devices > too: http://www.hwinfo.com > > > Ciao, Dave
One other possible trick to free up an IRQ is to disable the parrallel port in the bios if it's not being used. Chad
