How do I change IRQ settings in Win98SE

[LoneRngr]

Here's my problem. I am running Windows98SE, and for most programs, I have no problems with IRQ sharing. In fact, I had my GeForce2 MX video card and my Sound Blaster Live! Value card sharing IRQ 5 for a long time with little to no problems.

Recently, I have run into a program that requires the Video, Sound, and Network cards to be on seperate IRQs. To accomplish this, I moved my sound card to another PCI slot(I only have 2 on the Motherboard). This moved the Sound Card to IRQ 11, which it now shares with the USB Controllers and the Network card. So now I need to get the network card onto a different IRQ, but it is a SIS 900 Integrated card, and I am not sure how to change it's IRQ(Windows will not allow me to change it).

So now, I Have the Video card on IRQ5, the Sound Card on IRQ11, and the Network card on IRQ11. Can anyone help me to change the IRQ of either the network adapter or the sound card so I can have them all on different IRQs? Also, the Keyboard is on IRQ1, the mouse is on IRQ12, and the Parallel port is on IRQ7, I think. 2/9 has something on it, but I am not sure what it was.

Lonerngr

 

[weevilofdoom]

I'd check in your BIOS, sometimes they have an onboard devices section in one of the main sections, so you can enable/disable, etc etc settings of your onboard stuff.. Other than that, only thing I can think of is device manager in windows The weevil of doooooooooom
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[GulfBreeze]

If you need additional resources, consider what ports you may not be using. Most folks these days have little use of the serial (com1 and com2) ports, having moved to PS2 or USB keyboards and mice. If your scanner and printer are USB, you may not need your parallel port either. You can usually disable unused ports in the BIOS to free up IRQs. As Weevil mentions, you'll likely find the onboard NIC settings in the BIOS as well. If you've never poked around in your BIOS settings before, by all means have a look, but be very deliberate in what you change, ie: change one thing at a time, and take good notes. Cheers!

 

[LoneRngr]

That's a good Idea...the printer is still parallel, but the serial port is not being used for anything, I don't believe....I checked the BIOS already, because I wanted to make sure I had the onboard Video and Sound disabled. I disabled the onboard modem as well, as I am using cable. I could not find anything about settings for the NIC, only Enabled or Disabled. Thanks for the advice, though. If I am able to free up another IRQ, maybe the NIC will "self-appoint" itself to the Free IRQ instead of being shared.

Lonerngr