Hello all, Well, most motherboards I have worked with and there have been 100's of them..in most cases if you tell it to specify the settings instead of auto then you can assign IRQ's specifically to each PCI slot. In my K6-3 box I have it like this.. PCI Slot 1 = IRQ 9 2 = IRQ 10 3 = IRQ 11 4 = IRQ 12 I usually set most computers I build like this..I even built an AMD Athlon box for my friend lastnight and put Win98 on hda and SuSE on hdc..I setup his PCI slots with specific IRQ's and even Windows didn't bitch :) Hope this helps ...
Are you sure, that all bioses would assign a new irq if i just moved the card?
I am not a hardware technician, so my knowlege is by no means comprehensive. On most motherboards, PCI slots share IRQs in pairs, i.e. slots 0 and 1 share an IRQ, slot 2 may or may not, slots 3 and 4 share an IRQ, and slots 5 and 6 may or may not share. The fast way to find out is to move one card two slots ;).
but i have 4 devices sharing irq 11. usbcontroller, tvcard, Ati mach64 (AGP), and matrox pci. i have 3 or 4 pcislots, 2 ocupied. thought's?
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