Bunched IRQs?

Hi Everyone,
After installing windows 2000 and basic system drivers (Graphics sound and Raid) Win2k insists on giving these and several motherboard resources IRQ 7, even when IRQ 4 5 10 11 are free?.
I have tried to assign resources manually in the Bios and windows ignores this.
Would be grateful for any tips or suggestions on how to solve this one.

 

What resources are we talking about here?

 

If your talking about irq assignments 2k does that with machines that are using acpi

Here is an article with some other links
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q269491

another explaination of it from the gforce faq

http://www.geforcefaq.com/faq.cgi#hw:gef:troub:all1irqw2k

 

Many thanks for the info and links, problem solved ( I think). PC seems to be behaving itself now. Most importantly graphics (Creative GeForce 2 Pro) will display DVDs with no jittering.
All help is very much appreaciated, thanks again guys.