IRQ Problem

Antiloven · Post by **Antiloven** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:27 pm

My Video Card, Sound Card and Network Card are all on the same IRC. This causes a major slow down all around the board.
Plz help

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:46 pm

Cant you go into BIOS and change each one individually?

Antiloven · Post by **Antiloven** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:52 pm

I supposed I could If I knew how. Don't worry I don't like messing with my registery + bios. Plz feel free to give me a little explanation on how to do it.

Here is a Screenshot of my device manager:

http://www.boomspeed.com/antiloven/desktop.bmp

The devices used to be all on different IRQs but they all came on IRQ#9 after I formatted and installed windows2000. I used to use windowsXP.

Also look how my graphics card. It says that the card is connected on a PCI slow but I clearly put it on the AGP slot.

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 3:17 am

Need mobo type and bios type

Antiloven · Post by **Antiloven** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 4:34 am

I have a ASUS A7V266-E SocketA mother board and the drivers that came with it.

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 6:09 am

I would need the BIOS make. Like Award.. hP has there own, and so on. This may be fixed by changing 1 setting in BIOS. So I have to know what BIOS version you have.

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 6:12 am

When you boot up, press the delete key a couple times and that should tell you what your BIOS is. Then to get out, press the F10 key and do not save to Cmos. Post back what Bios and I can tell you how to fix your IRQ prob

Antiloven · Post by **Antiloven** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 6:48 am

Ultra100 (tm) BIOS Version 2.01.0 (Build 43)

Hope that helps

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 9:57 am

Do you mean they are all asiigned the same IRQ? In Device Manager? Your mobo has all that you mentioned onboard.

Try going into BIOS and search around for " reset data configuration"

enable it, save and exit

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 10:00 am

Go through the device manager and check each hardware device you listed, for conflicts.

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 11:45 am

If it's IRQ 9. thats happens quite a bit in XP. Even if you manually change the IRQ's. most likely you will go back to the prior IRQ.

Not sure what to tell you. Did you delete your file table before you formated? Or just formatted and installed Win2000?

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 11:50 am

There aren't many things you can do to change your IRQ assignments, you can try moving the PCI cards to different slots or reset your CMOS with the jumper on your MB - this will reassign all of your IRQs.

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 11:53 am

All his hardware is on the board. No changng slots. His mobo is all one peice with network, sound and video all onboard. Single layer

This is a XP flaw, but I wasn't aware it affected 2000

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 11:58 am

If he clears his CMOS, it will just re-assign everything back to the way it was. Just another XP hardware conflict.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 11:59 am

Originally posted by jeff8874
If he clears his CMOS, it will just re-assign everything back to the way it was.

No it won't, it will reassign everything a different IRQ.... they might still share but it's worth a try.

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 12:02 pm

He has a single layer, mobo. With everything onboard. It will not re-assign different IRQ"s in this case. Now if he had , PCI video, sound and nic, then you would be correct. I have gone through this all ready, and will never buy another mobo like that again.

Vic Mackey · Post by **Vic Mackey** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 1:44 pm

i was curious what mine said so i looked and it says my geforce 256 is PCI when it should be AGP

when i look under display settings it says my geforce 256 is AGP... which is correct?? and my video card shares irq11 with my network card

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 1:50 pm

Put NIC in different slot or go to Device manager and uninstall, reboot, Windows will discover it and assign it a IRQ, may have to do several times

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 3:02 pm

delete

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 4:11 pm

Originally posted by jeff8874
He has a single layer, mobo. With everything onboard. It will not re-assign different IRQ"s in this case. Now if he had , PCI video, sound and nic, then you would be correct. I have gone through this all ready, and will never buy another mobo like that again.

I see your point Jeff, I can't say for sure if I have done this on an integrated MB as he has (I hate them also & would never buy one).

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 4:19 pm

Yeah, they are a hassle. Especially when you want to upgrade your sound or video. Even after you disable the onboard device, it can still cause problems because it still exists. On the other hand, for around a $100-$120 you get everything you need built in to the board. I have a DFI AM33-EL on one of my machines, and it's always the same story with this type of mobo.

The reason why the IRQ wouldn't change when clearing the CMOS, is because those onboard devices are pre-assigned by the board manufacturer. On mine it happens to be 9, thats why I asked him the irq number.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 4:28 pm

Well thanks for the tip..... I know what you mean being a pain in the a#@ trying to upgrade to a video or sound card.... I recently did one (video) and disabled the onboard video and installed the new card..... conflict..... pain the the butt, I got it right but it wasn't as easy as it should have been.

Antiloven · Post by **Antiloven** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 4:42 pm

Well guys, it might sound weird but the problem only exists in windows 2000. Basically everything was assigned to my IRQ#9. I reset my CMOS 4 times and the same thing happened again and again AND AGAIN. I quit trying and went back to windows XP. Before I reset the CMOS, I used to get all major devices on differend IRQs. Now however both my soundcard and my video card were on the same IRQ, namely IRQ#11. I opened my case and switched around the soundcard to a different PCI slot. When I rebooted I discovered that the soundcard is on IRQ#10.
I quit trying to install windows 2000 and I guess I will stick with sucky XP

Take a look at how my device manager looks now:

I have no ideas what IRQs 12 and 13 are and when they do. I also don't use my additional USB ports and they take up like 100 IRQs

I really hate windows XP Home. It's like the windows made for my grandmother who doesn't care that there are 2 processes sending info to microsoft as I type. I tweaked my windows till 9 in the morning and it still sucks

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 4:46 pm

When I looked up your mobo, it stated that everything was built in. No PCI devices at all. Did you add something?

Antiloven · Post by **Antiloven** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 4:49 pm

I have disabled everything that is built in because I bought a GeForce4 and a SB Live! But I would like to mention that things were ok before.

Antiloven · Post by **Antiloven** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 12:10 am

No no no you don't understand. I don't USE anything that's onboard. I have disabled the onboard NIC + audio + video all together in the BIOS a long time ago. I bought a brand new GeForce4 and a brand new Sound Blaster Live and a brand new NiC card.
Those are all connected to different PCI slots and I positioned then all with one free PCI slot between them.
The problem is that windows 2000 does put them all on the same IRQ and no matter what I do in the BIOS, they end up on IRQ#9.
I have ran out ideas on what to do.

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 7:06 am

I understood from the start. I looked up your mobo. So I was aware you had disabled everything onboard. Just make sure you disbaled the onboard stuff correctly. Otherwise, Win2000 will give you problems. XP automatically disables unused devices most of the time.

Antiloven · Post by **Antiloven** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 7:32 am

I know I disabled everything correctly because I called tech support and they made sure I did it right.
I tried setting IRQs for each slot manually in the BIOS but windows 2000 TOTALLY ignored it! I went back to XP and it did not disregard the BIOS. Right now I have everything on a separate IRQ and the system is flying. I got a 9080 in 3DMark2001 now compared to 7500 with everything on the same IRQ. I had no idea this was slowing me down so much.
Thanks for your help btw

If you ever need a driver, call me

Ka|ibur · Post by **Ka|ibur** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:06 pm

How can I check my IRQ Assignments? I think I have the same problem aswell, NIC, Vid, Audio all on same IRQ #9

It makes my sound outputs have scratchy noises....

Anyone know how to change IRQs ? ... I'm also running XP

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:54 pm

Are you using additional hardware other than what is built into your board? If not, don't worry about it. The mobo manufacturer sets things up like that for a reason, so unless your having conflicts, don't worry. Go into your device manager and make sure there aren o yellow icons next to anything. If not, your fine, even with the hardware all on IRQ 9. Thats how my Athlon System is, and it's fast as hell.

Ploxhoi · Post by **Ploxhoi** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 9:49 am

You can not change IRQ settings in WinXP. Who cares if they are shared? I do not believe it really is going reduce performance.

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 10:57 pm

Originally posted by Ploxhoi
You can not change IRQ settings in WinXP. Who cares if they are shared? I do not believe it really is going reduce performance.

There are many factors to consider when changing IRQ's in XP. First of all it is possible. Not sure where you got your info from, but all you have to do is go into BIOS, and you can change anything that isn't onboard. As long as you have a XP compatible BIOS that is.

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 11:24 pm

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... US;q314068

This is totally related to this thread.

jeff8874 · Post by **jeff8874** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 11:26 pm

For Windows 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... us;Q252420

Ploxhoi · Post by **Ploxhoi** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 8:25 pm

Manually assigning IRQs to PCI slots in the system BIOS as a troubleshooting method may work on some non-ACPI systems that use a standard PC hardware abstraction layer (HAL), but these settings are ignored by Plug and Play in Windows if ACPI support is enabled.

If you need to manually assign IRQ addresses through the BIOS to a device on an ACPI motherboard, you must reinstall Windows to force the installation to use a Standard PC HAL.

So you can not change IRQ's in XP.

Then with the BIOS method, it may work or you may have to reinstall Windows.