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Date:	Fri, 7 Jun 2002 20:59:53 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	Tony Butka <butka@pacbell.net > , scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: IRQ Wars, the sequel

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Hi Tony,

It seems as though that P-III has a propensity for popping out when
the box is transported (whereas its predecessor cpu in the earlier mb
did not). This I corrected right away, since I now know what to look
for.

The thing that's baffling to me is how we could boot each OS shortly
before I left, without any noticeable problems, and then have a
resurgence of IRQ conflicts in each as soon as I hooked the box back
up over here. Nothing should have changed while I was on the fwy.
But then, I can't account for _every_ BIOS setting before and after
our session, in case anything inadvertently got changed during it.

The main culprit seems to be the NIC. I've been getting a variety of
error messages, depending on what changes I try, but most often
"Fatal: PCI Bus Allocated an Illegal Interrupt to Chip !" And the NIC
driver does not load. The NIC had been in PCI Slot #1, where I had to
move it a while back in order to get it to work. When it goes down
now, it tends to drag the Aopen sound card in PCI slot #2 along with
it.

I've been trying all sorts of BIOS settings, mostly with no joy.
Weren't all of these slots set to AUTO ? When it comes to OS/2, PNP
is a horrible, fiendish invention ! After playing musical PCI slots
(again !), with negative results, I've finally gotten to the point
where I can connect with the outside world once more . . . at least
for the moment. I did this by pulling the sound card entirely,
putting the NIC into slot #2, turning off PNP in the BIOS, setting the
now vacant slot #1 to NA, and forcing the NIC in slot 2 onto IRQ-11.
If I put the sound card back, one of the hard drives won't come up.
Huh ?!

If PNP must be turned _Off_ in order for OS/2 to load things properly,
I've got a feeling that W2K is going to bug out _without_ it. I'll
check that out next, but this BIOS disharmony did not exist
previously. I'm at a loss to understand this.

Perhaps a clue is that W2K suddenly said the NIC was not set up
correctly, and that I should re-install its' driver. Is it possible
that Windoze can re-program Slot settings in a way that lasts through
successive boots ?

I must be missing something.

Jordan

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