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W2K IRQ's

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by rgalbre2 Jul 22, 2001 last reply Oct 11, 2001

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Is there an easy way to manipulate IRQ's in Windows 2000?I seem to be at the mercy of ACPI in a new 1GHZ Compaq with 3 proprietary cards.

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by sergey kovzik Jul 22, 2001

Windows 2000 attempts to put all PnP cards on IRQ 9 in ACPI configuration. You can try disable ACPI features in your BIOS.

by rgalbre2 Oct 11, 2001

I found the irq 9 issue not be true in the machines I setup.

by nettek Jul 23, 2001

Go to System in Control Panel. Click the Hardware tab and select Device Manager. Choose View -> Resources by Type. You will see each device, whether it is PCI or ISA, and the IRQ that has been assigned. If you right-click on a device and choose Properties, you can manually change the IRQ settings of certain devices under the Resources tab.

by rgalbre2 Oct 11, 2001

Useful and I used this info.

by jhackett Jul 23, 2001

Heres what I do with this Diable ACPI and let plug and play detect everything. Then after all is recognized, turn ACPI back on. If that does not work just disable ACPI permanently.