PCI Card ?Resources?

Good day evryone, how do I find out how much resources my soundcard/modem/AGP are taking each?

I read somewhere (a while ago) that some cards, after being installed, take more than their fair share of resources, and that this can affect the running of your puter.

Also, can you manually reset it to what it should be?

Cheers.
Dig.

 

You can see what resources your card is taking up by going to Device Manager, selecting the card and choosing Properties, and clicking on the Resources tab. There you should see Input/Output Range and Interrupt Request (IRQ) numbers.

There might be two I/O Range entries, which is probably what you have read about.

You can manually edit those numbers for some types of hardware, but only if you are sure what you are doing, otherwise I don't think it would be there just for nothing.

Also if you are going to change something, try to write down what was there by default so you could return it to a normal state afterwards.

Cheers

 

Do you know what a sound card and a AGP graphics card should be set at?

 

I don't actually know what they should be at, but looking at my own configuration I have my video card with two I/O Ranges and it doesn't actually bother me because everything else works fine.

In my opinion it wouldn't just be there because it wants to, but because those resources are mainly assigned for that device...

If you have something not working properly then you should read or get some info on that device or whatever that is, otherwise, "don't try to fix it, if it ain't broke"