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  • December 13, 2000 at 7:58 pm #2093000

    Why won’t Sound card set to correct IRQ?

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    by goodwin2000 · about 24 years, 4 months ago

    I was tring to install an upgrade soundcard to the one I have now. The card was seated correctly, and O/S was configured to use Automatic settings, but when I went to install the driverrs I kept getting an error message saying that the sound card IRQ was routed incorrectly. I checked Device Manager and found that IRQ12 was being used(this should be for PS/2 mouse.

    Can anyone tell me why this may happen?

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    • December 14, 2000 at 1:17 am #3870713

      Why won’t Sound card set to correct IRQ?

      by marence · about 24 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to Why won’t Sound card set to correct IRQ?

      First – is this a PCI card? if so, check to see what’s going on with your PCI steering. If this is an EISA card, you’ll have to configure the IRQ yourself – using the Device Manager in System Properties would be the easiest way. Uncheck Automatic settings, and use an IRQ that doesn’t conflict, which may be a problem in and of itself if all your IRQs are being used.

    • December 14, 2000 at 3:20 am #3870643

      Why won’t Sound card set to correct IRQ?

      by idtent · about 24 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to Why won’t Sound card set to correct IRQ?

      I’ll second that answer. additionaly, if you didn’t blow away all references to the old sound card when you put the new one in the OS probably tried to put it somewhere else than in the old spot. thats my $0.02

    • December 18, 2000 at 5:50 am #3881872

      Why won’t Sound card set to correct IRQ?

      by morts · about 24 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to Why won’t Sound card set to correct IRQ?

      Sounds like you might have had an eisa card
      and the new one is a Pci card.
      There are a number of issues.
      First of all check your bios to see if the
      Plug and play is in operation, also check
      if the Irq routing in the bios is set to
      automatic ormanual. If its manual, each
      pci slot is assigned an Irq address. you can’t plug in a card and assign it a different irq to the one assigned to the slot.Also did you completely remove the old
      card and drivers in the control panel.
      You can also check to see what resources are available ie irq’s dma’s ports etc. In the
      control panel\Device manager\view devices by
      connection\computer\properties. This will
      also tell you if the old sound card still has
      an irq assigned to it.

      Most Pci cardsare plug and play and the settings are done automatically.

      If you are using NT however, NT does not support plug and pray as we call it.

      BE CAREFUL WITH LINUX.
      Cheers Bud.

    • January 13, 2001 at 6:28 pm #3851527

      Why won’t Sound card set to correct IRQ?

      by goodwin2000 · about 24 years, 3 months ago

      In reply to Why won’t Sound card set to correct IRQ?

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