Author Topic: Problems with LOCKUPS (Read 955 times)

Lephturn · « **Reply #15 on:** April 03, 2002, 08:08:22 AM »

Naw, Bloom25 is the hardware man.

I've just been around the block a few times with hardware for gaming, especially AH.

If I only had a nickle for every time crashes/pauses/graphics errors in AH were caused by Detonator driver I'd be a rich man.

MAND,

With PCI devices, IRQ's are not assigned to your cards themselves, but to the PCI slots you plug the cards into. On todays mainboards with many integrated devices, some of the slots often share IRQ's with other system devices or other slots. There are normally a couple of slots that are shared, namely the first PCI slot below the AGP slot and normally the 3rd slot. I bet your sound card is in the top slot right below your AGP slot. Before you move it though, you should find out what slots you have other devices plugged into, and what slots are sharing IRQ's with other things like your USB controller. Your mainboard manual should have this information. If you don't have your manual, just tell me which board you have, and what devices you have plugged into which slots and I can give you a recommendation.

Is that an Abit K7A-100? I don't recognize K7-100... what manufacturer is it?

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #16 on:** April 03, 2002, 09:25:30 AM »

LOL Leph, you won the bet. I'm using just the PCI below AGP slot, third one is used by the ADSL card. The funny thing is that ADSL card and Audigy are not sharing irqs, only GF3 and audigy are sharing IRQ 5.

The MB is a Soltek (http://www.soltek.com.tw) SL77KV SlotA, 1 APG, 5 PCI and 1 ISA. I actually have first and last PCIs free (well, first with the SB). I'll try placing the SB in the last PCI slot above the ISA.

Still not sure it be an IRQ related problem ... ... perhaps a hardware acceleration issue for sound, perhaps even unrelated with sound card at all, but present since last patch was installed, first with an old AWE64 ISA, two lockups in a week and one total loose of sound and then with the Audigy (installed yesterday) with two lockups.

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #17 on:** April 05, 2002, 03:33:56 AM »

Audigy switched to another PCI slot, no more lockups for the moment.

Naudet · « **Reply #18 on:** April 05, 2002, 06:02:10 AM »

How do i find out if IRQs are shared?

Edit: Found my IRO settings:

this were the old ones:

IRQ
9 Ethernet adapter
10 Soundblaster 128
10 Geforce 2 Ti
11 ISDN Controller

Now i put my SCard in a new slot and have:
IRQ
9 Geforce 2 Ti
10 ISDN Controller
11 Soundblaster
11 Ethernet Adapter

are the later IRQ setting better?

straffo · « **Reply #19 on:** April 05, 2002, 07:47:46 AM »

yes

that's short ... I know

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #20 on:** April 05, 2002, 07:53:28 AM »

Naudet, IMO, sharing audio and video IRQs is the worst situation.

In your actual case, you are sharing audio and network IRQs, but I suppose that you rarelly will be using both devices extensively at the same time

Naudet · « **Reply #21 on:** April 06, 2002, 02:46:14 AM »

I am using the Ethernet adapter just for my DSL connection.

Is there a possibility that this will cause connection probs or something similar?

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #22 on:** April 08, 2002, 04:11:54 AM »

Naudet, if you have time and patience for experiment, try several combinations of your cards using different PCI slots till you get video, dsl and audio using different IRQs. If you are not using printers or com ports, disable them from the bios, this will give you three free IRQs more.