Re: IRQ configuration problem and ACPI?
From: Geoffw (gwinnetSPAM_at_SPAMhotmail.com)
Date: 04/29/04
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:29:42 +1000
can't you disable power management in the bios ?
this and disable PNP OS
and setup as a standard PC, during install F5 while
detecting hardware if option to select type of PC is not
given
"Shane" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:594201c42d62$e58881b0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Got a strange comp question for you. I installed an AMD
> Athalon XP 2400+ on a Shuttle motherboard, AK32V/N with
> Windows 2000 and one stick 512 PC2700. It was screamin,
> well, to me anyway. I installed everything again on a
> zeroed out drive, putting in the Drivers for the
> integrated Ethernet, Six USB 2.0 ports, and sound--ACPI
> put everything on irq 11, not such a big deal. Then I put
> in the 64mb Radeon All-IN-One, then the modem. It started
> getting junked up the more I put in as ACPI assigned them
> both to irq 11 as well. When the modem is going the
> screen gets glitchy or goes blank. The sound doesn't work
> at all. And, don't get me started on trying to print,
> scan, or use my remote on the USBs. I go in to change the
> irq with no options whatsoever to do so.
>
> I went to Microsoft and found out that this is by design.
> Apparently, the irqs are set from the ACPI in the BIOS,
> which is passing different irqs to Windows 2000, 7,9,10
> and such, but they all get converted to 11 by windows.
> Windows tells me it's putting the hardware on other irqs
> (during the multiple reinstalls of each device), which
> seem to be assigned in device manager, but that's only
> good until restart when everything is back to 11. So then
> I thought, slight as the chance may be, that it was a
> virus corrupting windows. I zeroed out another drive, then
> did a fresh install on that drive and got the exact same
> problem with no outside corruption possible.
>
> Then, I try to manually change my hardware abstraction
> layer from ACPI to Standard and, as I feared, since ACPI
> is unchangeablly defaulted in the CMOS, it chose irq 11
> for everything again. So, I lost the controllability of
> ACPI without even gaining the benefit I needed to...say,
> dial-up and see the web pages. I can't print and hear
> music. I can't play a game and hear the sound, or see
> clear video.
>
> Help one, help all; it's going to be a smelly fire if I
> set blaze to this computer like I'm thinkin' I might.
>
> Thanks!
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