At 01:46 PM 1/24/02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (in part) the following:
[snip] >One thing I am wondering, after multiple re-installs of Win98SE on my >system at home, and having one problem after another showing up (nothing of >the problems is consistant from one install to the next - some problems >will show up VERY quickly after the install; on others, a problem will show >up quite some time later, after re-installing any number of programs I use >BUT it results in the same - reinstall of Win98SE from scratch), I finally >talked to a level 2 tech at Creative Labs, we looked at the IRQ usage under >device drivers under my computer, and found that windows, apparently from >finding all the daughter boards installed in the system from the start of >the install, assigned about 6 devices to IRQ 5. He sugguested that I do >another re-install but this time take all boards but video out, do the >install, and then re-install each board separately with its software, to >hopefully eliminate this problem. > >Has anyone had experience with this happening to them and this fixing the >problem??? And can this type of problem cause all the random types of >instability that I have had occur in windows??? This behavior (reinstalls show different IRQ values) is caused a feature called IRQ Steering. By using PCI bus IRQ steering, Windows can dynamically assign or "steer" PCI bus IRQs to PCI devices. There is a Knowledge Base article that describes this behavior: Description of PCI Bus IRQ Steering (Q182604) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q182604 If you need to disable this feature to force a specific device to use a specific IRQ, see: How to Disable PCI Bus IRQ Steering in Windows (Q182628) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q182628 -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
