IRQ Sharing

Hey guys and gals!

Every 2 - 3 minutes my video, audio, mouse movements all go choppy for about 1-2 seconds. I have recently installed a new WD ATA/100, 60 gb hard drive and a Promise ATA/100 card and since then I have had this problem. I reinstalled Win2k on the new HD.

I believe the problem is with IRQ sharing but after trying everything on this message board (swapping slots, removing cards, leaving 1st slot open, turning PnP OpSys off) I have not been able to fix it. I have a Dell XPS B800r and all the other devices should be listed below.

System Information report written at: 11/27/2002 02:49:27 PM
[IRQs]

IRQ Number Device
9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
9 ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 7500
9 Win2000 Promise Ultra100 TX2 (tm) IDE Controller
9 Initio Ultra SCSI Host Adapter
9 Realtek RTL8139(A)-based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter #2
9 Creative SB Live! Basic (WDM)
9 Intel(r) 82801AA USB Universal Host Controller
9 Intel(r) 82801AA SMBus Controller
11 PCI Serial Port
8 System CMOS/real time clock
13 Numeric data processor
12 Microsoft PS/2 Mouse
1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
6 Standard floppy disk controller
4 Communications Port (COM1)
14 Primary IDE Channel
15 Secondary IDE Channel

Any ideas?

 

I should also ask...

Is this a Win2k problem or should it be posted under hardware?

 

Pull out your sound card and see how it goes, if that fixes the problem, reinstall that and get updated drivers for it. There is new SB Live! series available from the soundblaster website. These are the best drivers released for the live series for compatibility with windows 2k. Its a 25mb download but believe me well worth it.

It definatley sounds like the same problem I had and it was the soundcard. Good luck!

 

Thanks calculus but to no avail...i believe it may be a conflict with the Promise ATA/100 and SCSI card.

One strange other note...If I remove my SCSI card then the computer is unable to locate the operating system even though it is not used to boot.

 

Chop-chop

You dont specify but if you are using the PCI slot next to the AGP slot you might try removing that card and see if things are better.

 

thanks dr_gle...I have tried that but no success

Would reinstalling as a Standard PC (no ACPI) help anything? or reinstalling with the SCSI card removed. I don't use it for anything but a scanner which could be moved to another computer.