Manually changing IRQ's

[nathan52981]

I have a M817 motherboard, and i am having trouble with my tv card freezing my computer. i have tried moving the card to every slot available, but it wont change the irq. i am curious to know if i can change the irq settings manually on this board. if i can how can i do it. any help is much appreciated

 

[Rockn]

There is no physical jumper to change the IRQ...you can do it manually in device manager by going to the listing for the device, click the plus next to it, double click the device, go to the resources tab and uncheck the automatic configuration.....go to the pulldown for "setting based on" and change it to anything other than zero if it will let you and then double click the interrupt request under resource type and a list should come up and if it conflicts with another device it should tell you.

 

[nathan52981]

when i unchecked the automatic configuration box and tried to change the irq it said it couldnt be changed. the only think i could change was the memory refrence settings.

 

[Rockn]

Try changing the resources for the device that is in conflict with your TV card instead.

 

[Alex Ethridge]

If using 95/8, change the Bacic Configuration to another number; then try changing resource settings again. Make the same try on all Basic Configuration numbers. One of the Basic Configurations will allow the change.

 

[nathan52981]

i am using win me, when i try to change the basic config. i only have one option.

 

[TheGorx]

i have tried moving the card to every slot available


Does this mean free slots?
When it come to motherboard I'm no real big expert but it seems with all the ones I've owned the slots will start sharing.

Like the last two I've owned the two slots are on the same irq as the agp.
You can change the irq in the bios but they all change to the same irq.
If you try switch your card around you might find some that can share better.


Another thing, when switch cards around if not done carefully you will get alot of junk hardware registry listrings.
These can cause problems too.

Also you might want to check the drivers and thier inf file path/name.

http://www.thegorx.net/Windows/Help/Hardware.htm

Also you might want to check your video software for patches or updates.
I know installing new video cards can have problems if you don't cleanup your old video software drivers first.

After hearing problems like this makes me think if I ever get such a device I'll get an external one.

Any way good luck

TheGorx
http://www.thegorx.net/Windows/index.htm