Bunched IRQs?

[thelayabout]

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.

 

[Rockn]

What resources are we talking about here?

 

[brianF]

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

 

[thelayabout]

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.