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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: Dinger on November 18, 2001, 11:14:00 PM
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Here's the problem:
I had a hard crash on AH, and in rebooting, my BIOS settings got reset. I reinitialized them and came up.
Since then, whenever I play AH online, I get this annoying stuttering. FR will be steady at 37, for example, but several times a second, the screen will freeze. I tried playing AH in offline mode while connected to the internet, and I did not get this problem.
I then checked my IRQ information, and found my modem and vid card on the same IRQ.
Here's my question:
how the hell do you break 'em apart?
I've tried switching between bios-controlled PnP and OS-control, no dice. I've tried uninstalling the modem and letting it reinstall it. No good.
I have plenty of IRQs lying around they will work. Do I have to physically remove the hardware or flush the ECSD information to solve this?
Anybody know how to fix this up?
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>Do I have to physically remove the hardware?
Yes, and reboot after each installation. Try moving to different slots as well.
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Dinger move your NIC one slot down in your motherboard. If that doesn't help, make sure you don't have ACPI enabled - that will force you to share IRQ's.
Unless ACPI is messing up your setup, changing the slot where the PCI card is installed usually does the trick.
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Yup, I shifted it one slot, and kicked it off the IRQ.
Unfortunately, I guess that wasn't the problem. Now I'm out of ideas as to what could be causing this. I guess I'm grounded :(