1880 PCI/PNP Error! No Hardware Interrupt Available.

[Zamunda]

I installed a new harddrive (Maxtor 60 GB) into my 4 year old IBM pentium II. I have only the CD-DVD, and the Harddrive as master on the Ultra ATA Cable. Before I loaded and after I loaded Windows 2000 I have been recieving this error:

1880 PCI/PNP Error! No Hardware Interrupt Available.

The computer is reading the hard drive and floppy and DVD and I am able to run windows after forcing it through this error.

My question is, how do I make this error dissappear?

I tried dissabling Ethernet and CD Boot in the Bios Setup utility, but this hasn't helped. Could anyone who has a better idea help. Please.

Z.

 

[Mulga]

Only thing I can think of is a BIOS flash to the latest version may help. That is a pretty old motherboard, I am surprised it recognizes the 60GB drive at all. Help us to help you, please post back and tell us if this helped.

All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

 

[Zamunda]

Aaah. The old BIOS recognized this setup alright. The problem was that PNP support was disabled and the computer was actually rejecting the Dial-up Modem. After enabling PNP support and reinstalling the Modem driver in the Device Manager the error disappeared. Thanks for your input.

E

 

[georgesteel]

hi Zamunda! How did you make out with that 1880 error you had in January? The reason I'm asking is that the same error came up on my IBM P2-400 (running WIN98) last night when I brought it out of standby - I can access Setup, which recognizes my two hard drives and CDROM and the rest, but when I exit Setup I get the white-on-black 'NO OS FOUND, F1 BOOT' screen which is as far as I can go. Sticking in a WIN98 startup disk has no effect. I tried replacing the primary HHD with another: Setup recognized it, but then I got the same thing as before.
Regards,
GEORGE STEEL, Melbourne, Australia - 18June03(gsteel@webprophets.net.au)