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Problem with P4T-E and Geforce4

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Moni

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Apr 2, 2002, 2:14:47 PM4/2/02
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This is my system, I use Win98:

P4T-E
P4 1.7
Asus 8170DDR (chip: geforce4 mx440)
256 MB Rimm
Studio DV
PCI Ethernet
Wintv
SBLive
Controller Scsi Diamond

The vga card wants an IRQ reserved, but my Bios doesn't allow me to
assign it; so each time that I put a card and the agp irq becomes
shared, the system doesn't recognize properly the card. Somebody says
that with this mobo there aren't irq shared, but I have 5PCI+1AGP and
only 4 irq free: 5,9,10,11; how is it possible? Which one is for AGP?
How can reserve it?
Please help me!!!

S.Lewis

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Apr 2, 2002, 4:20:36 PM4/2/02
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"Moni" <pastic...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Not as a final solution; but have you uninstalled, then pulled the sound,
nic, and tv tuner to see if the install goes any better?

Perhaps that might give you a workaround....

Stew

Moni

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Apr 3, 2002, 3:16:31 AM4/3/02
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"S.Lewis" <stew1...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<r4pq8.15550$0T6.5...@e3500-atl1.usenetserver.com>...

I have done it and the result is that everything is on IRQ 5,10,11 and
the system is stable, the problem is that there is no way for the nic
to work, when I try to install it, the system doesn't restart and I
have lost my vga forever (the max resolution possible is 640*480), so
I must reinstall windows. There is no way to recovery the vga.

S.Lewis

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Apr 3, 2002, 7:24:59 AM4/3/02
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"Moni" <pastic...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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you know, if I'm not mistaken, most all Nvidia cards technically
suggest/require that the card have it's own IRQ, if I'm not mistaken.

when I learned of this, I seemed to recall feeling that this was BS, only
inasmuch as it allowed the card mfrs. to shorten/minimize their tech support
calls :) <i.e.-'oh, it's sharing an IRQ with your ________, well there's
your problem....>

thing is, sharing is not uncommon and usually <in my experience> works fine.
Here are mine in Win2K SP2. don't know if this helps, as we have different
boards, and I have fewer cards:

IRQ Number Device

1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
3 Communications Port (COM2)
4 Communications Port (COM1)
6 Standard floppy disk controller
8 System CMOS/real time clock
9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System

*11 NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200
*11 SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller
*11 SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller
*11 Creative SB Live! series(WDM)
*11 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI For Complete PC Management NIC (3C905C-TX)

12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse
13 Numeric data processor
14 Primary IDE Channel
15 Secondary IDE Channel


Any chance a different NIC might be more friendly towards sharing?

Stew


Stew

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