IRQ Sharing

[Eagler]

Get an external modem, put that on a serial port. Then put an ISA NIC in the ISA slot. I'd put the DSL on the 3COM and put that in slot 2, to free up your DMA 66 controller IRQ. Just pick up a cheap Linksys ISA for your networked computers. Disable the other serial port and force the Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller to take it. This will get the USB controller and sound card on their own IRQ.
That should give everything it's own IRQ.

ps:
Have you downloaded the latest chipset drivers for your mb from here: http://appsr.intel.com/scripts-df/Support_Intel.asp

gl

Eagler
 

[This message has been edited by Eagler (edited 04-23-2001).]

[Lephturn]

Yep, Eagler has the only solution I can see there.

Other than not using the Highpoint HD controller.

Does your hard drive support ATA66?  If it doesn't, you could move your HD to the Intel controller and get just as good performance and solve that problem.  Run your CD as a slave on the primary with your HD as master on IDE1 and you wouldn't have a conflict with the Kingston card anymore.  If I were you I think I would poke around for a program called HD Tach and benchmark your HD on your Intel IDE and the Highpoint, and see if it's worth the hassle to run it on the Highpoint or not.

I'm jumping through the same hoops here with my KA7-100 Athlon board.  Sigh.  It's about time they added another 8 IRQ's methinks.  

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[Gypsy Baron]

 

Originally posted by Lephturn:
Yep, Eagler has the only solution I can see there.

Other than not using the Highpoint HD controller.

Does your hard drive support ATA66?  If it doesn't, you could move your HD to the Intel controller and get just as good performance and solve that problem.  Run your CD as a slave on the primary with your HD as master on IDE1 and you wouldn't have a conflict with the Kingston card anymore.  If I were you I think I would poke around for a program called HD Tach and benchmark your HD on your Intel IDE and the Highpoint, and see if it's worth the hassle to run it on the Highpoint or not.

I'm jumping through the same hoops here with my KA7-100 Athlon board.  Sigh.  It's about time they added another 8 IRQ's methinks.  

Yes, the HD is a WD181AA...that's a ATA/66 drive so it needs the UDMA66 controller
if it's going to run at max performance.

I'm more suspect of the USB/SB Live IRQ sharing than I am of the HD/NIC so I'm
considering getting a PS/2 mouse to replace my USB mouse and see what comes of that.

I REALLY do not want to replace my extremely reliable USR ISA modem with an external
device. I already have WAY too much clutter here with 3 CPU's, a 19" monitor, a 17" monitor, 3 keyboards, a scanner, a printer and various odd an insundry TM gear around the computer hutch...

I think I'll swap the Kingston and 3COM NIC's, which will at least put the inactive
local network NIC on the HD IRQ and the DSL NIC will have one all by itself, then replace the USB mouse with the PS/2 mouse and assign
IRQ's manually if necessary, to get the SB Live on an IRQ by itself.

More IRQ's would be nice, of course, but software SHOULD, idealy, work within the constraints
of the current specifications. I don't know exactly WHAT is being PORKED but something IS
and it's AH that's doing it somehow and it remains
PORKED until the system is rebooted. This should NOT happen...in a perfect world  


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[Lephturn]

Heh, in a perfect world every device has it's own IRQ.  

You may be able to get an adapter for that mouse.  My Microsoft mouse is PS/2 and has a PS/2->USB adapter on it, so I imagine it's possible to get one that does the reverse.  Maybe not, but it's worth a shot.

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[Gypsy Baron]

 

Originally posted by Lephturn:
Heh, in a perfect world every device has it's own IRQ.  

 hehehe, yes, this is true  
 

You may be able to get an adapter for that mouse.  My Microsoft mouse is PS/2 and has a PS/2->USB adapter on it, so I imagine it's possible to get one that does the reverse.  Maybe not, but it's worth a shot.

Mice are cheap so I think I'll just run out today sometime and pick one up.

It's all the hassle of reloading drivers, etc, that makes this such
a pain in the butt! Yesterday I swapped the NIC's and spent a couple of hours
getting everything back to "normal"...had to remove
and re-install the MS Network Monitor drivers so that I can periodically
check my D/L speeds, etc. Had to find the Kingston driver disk amidst the jumble of
software that I've aquired over the past 10 years...

Anyhow, I haven't checked to see if the NIC swap did any good or not. The HD statistics are
about the same and don't seem to vary if the local network machines are fired up or not.

I'll let yah all know how the mouse change effects the problem once that ordeal is completed  


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