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Date:	Sat, 8 Jun 2002 09:27:26 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: IRQ Wars, the sequel

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In <3D019D49.8B96045A@pacbell.net>, on 06/07/02
at 08:59 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>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.

This could be hardware or just a slightly scrambled CMOS. Things can
happen when you take a computer for a ride.

What I would suggest is resetting to the BIOS defaults. These are
conservative settings that are supposed to work even if the hardware is
marginal. It that makes the problems go away, you have marginal hardware
or bad connections somewhere. If so, reseating all the cards and making
sure the MB is properly isolated is in order.

If that fails, I would clear the CMOS and try again.

In general, with PCI, there's little need to override the settings. All I
usually do is turn off the IDE channels, since I don't use them. I tend
to set IRQ 3,4 and 7, but I'm not really sure the MB does not do that
implicitly.

Steven

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