Change IRQ's on CL cards?

[mwigtkm]

Well I was having some difficulties with my CL cards playing nice in my system. As it turns out both are on IRQ 11 (thank you to samgreco for pointing that out as it has been a long time since I had an IRQ issue). I only have two full size pci slots so I can't move them. Windows won't allow me to change IRQ's and my Bios won't allow me to....I am starting to think I am out of luck and will have to shift computers?

Any other way to change IRQ's?

[abobader]

Hi,

Sound you have old mobo or hardware cards, if I am wrong, get the latest BIOS and drivers for your hardware (if that done already), try this:

Swich the pci cards, like pci card in slot 1 to slot 2 and the one on slot 2 to 1.

Also disable recourses that you do not need, com's, printer ports, second ide's ... etc.

Boot win and see if that help, what ver of win OS you have?

Becouse XP and up can handle "share" IRQ's nicely, well most of the time tho

My best.

[samgreco]

mwigtkm - I don't think that sharing IRQs between the 2 CL cards is much of an issue. I think that something else may be using IRQ11.

Depending on the BIOS in your system, you may be able to assign a specific IRQ to each slot, but with the riser, I don't know. But I would start there, with the BIOS IRQ settings. And also, abobader is absolutely correct about disabling any resources that you don't need to free up IRQs.