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irq conflict

lodingi

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i noticed my online gaming experience has been terrible. i get alot of jitter. i went into device manager and noticed my video card, sound card, network card and usb host controllers all sharing the same irq. what can i do? thanks.
 
i do have sp2 installed. the microsoft acpi compliant system is also using this irq.
 
i think it was happening before sp2 but i'm not positive. i don't mind formatting and reinstalling everything again. it would suck if it did not work though.
 
Thing is, I'm having the EXACT same problem after my installation of SP2. So right now, I'm trying to find some time to re-format and not install SP2 untill it's actually working.

What happenes with me besides the conflicts is that I restart randomly.
 
i don't get the restarts but my gaming really stinks. it used to be great. of course windows xp doesn't allow us to reassign irq's. drives me nuts.
 
uhm..if they all had the same IRQ wouldn't your comp crash every couple seconds?
 
gwai lo said:
uhm..if they all had the same IRQ wouldn't your comp crash every couple seconds?

no.. not really..
I guess you could try removing the cards.. booting into windows w/o them and then put them back in different slot..
 
gwai lo said:
uhm..if they all had the same IRQ wouldn't your comp crash every couple seconds?

IRQ sharing has been mandated for over 10 years. Any problems could be non-compliant drivers (like those for old SoundBlasters).

If nothing else, you could reinstall and when you see the message to press F6 for third-party storage drivers, press F5 and choose Standard PC as your HAL rather than ACPI.
 
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