[plug] Sound card dramas

[Kim Covil]

Along these lines it is worthwhile noting that most motherboards have
certain slots that are tied together IRQ wise... ie slot 5 might always
have the same IRQ as the AGP slot... or slot 3 might share IRQs with the
ATA100/133 bus... 

Check with your motherboard manual... I know this caused me some
problems with my machine as bus mastering devices don't like to share
IRQs (not that I think the Live is bus-mastering)

Cheers

Kim

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 18:38, craig at postnewspapers.com.au wrote:
> You might also want to try going into the BIOS, picking a specific IRQ
> and assigning it to the PCI slot the Live is in, then telling the PNP
> resource management section that that IRQ is unavailable for PnP because
> its been allocated "manually/isa/legcy" or whatever your bios calls it.
> 
> I had problems with my SB Live until I managed to force the BIOS to
> allocate it an IRQ all to itsself, it doesn't seem to correctly do IRQ
> sharing as per the PCI spec.
> 
> Also be sure to disable your onboard sound hardware in BIOS.
> 
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