AIW Radeon and IRQs

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PageHite

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Does the AIW-R share IRQs gracefully or does it prefer to have one IRQ to itself? While image display very nicely, and stills can be captured, I still can't get ANY AVI or MPEG video to capture, so I'm re-checking EVERYTHING... Currently , my AIW-R is sharing IRQ 11 with the USB controller, a 1394 firewire controller, and the LAN controller embedded on the motherboard. Windows 98 (NOT SE or ME) made all the assignments and the MB is set as having a PNP OS. All drivers appear normal, and I have no indicated conflicts. Any suggestions, comments, advice for the techno-weary? I enjoy tinkering with the box, but this is becoming tiresome.

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Page Hite
 
Holy sh*t man,

Just so you know it is never a good idea to have shared IRQs with your video card OR your sound cards.

To answer your question, the Radeon does not share IRQs gracefully and neith does any other modern video card, or sound card...

Set tehe BIOS to having no PNP OS. Might be time to do some PCI swapping...

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Damn IRQ's. There are too little. I want an AIWRAD (thank god my current rage pro has an IRQ all to itself). It only uses one IRQ right? Sharing sucks. My SBLIVE value would hang for sharing the IRQ with my CMD ultraATA66 controller on bootup with the absolute latest soundblaster drivers. If i revert to the stock liveware3 drivers everything is fine (it shares, but no lockups) This is in Win98. Anyone know why the latest drivers hate sharing while the liveware3 doesnt mind it?

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Hmmm, it seems I'm doomed to some sharing no matter what I do. After assigning ICQs to the PCI slots and disabling Pnp OS setting. It appears that this motherboard (Intel D815EAAL with embedded LAN controller) shares a single IRQ on the AGP slot, PCI slots 1 & 5 and the embedded LAN controller. Anybody else out there got any experience with this motherboard?

Regards,

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Try disabling your com ports in windows/system/device manager, then in your bios. Also enable ESCD update. I've heard of agp and slot 1 sharing an irq, and onboard lan/nic and slot 5 sharing, - but never all 4 sharing a single irq - this seems too much for even intel to get away with !
If you can, stagger your cards so irq cards are in even numbered slots. If you need a com port, enable it after everything else is straight, changing it's address till it shares an irq with something besides video or sound.

Oh yeah - If you have an sbLive, disabling sb16 emulation (do you really need it?)will also free up an irq.

[This message has been edited by gerbz (edited 10-30-2000).]
 
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