Don Hewler 0 Posted October 16, 2001 Hello, My GeForce 2 MX is on IRQ 3. My "ACPI IRQ HOLDER FOR PCI IRQ STEERING" is also on IRQ 3. This is causing major conflicts. Does anybody know how to fix this, so that the Geforce is by itself?. Thanks for your help Share this post Link to post
Karl 0 Posted October 16, 2001 Don Hewler, The device ACPI IRQ HOLDER FOR PCI IRQ STEERING is acuttly the device that allows your computer to share IRQ's between the cards most often you'll find that there is a IRQ steering attached to each irq. What exacly "conflict" wise is happening. Are you getting poor framrates. crashes. video anonymoulys <-- ohh I don't I didn't spell that right. What other cards do you have in the system? By default on most boards if you look in the manual it will show you which devices/slots share what. For example in Abit's BP6 PIC slot 3 shares with the Udma controler and Slot 0 shares with the AGP card. Hence wonderfull things happen if you use all the devices on the secondary controller and then put a nic in slot 3 that is also heavly used... Try checking your bios and see if it's set to plug and play os or not. Often I've found that bios's are better as assigning irq's then MS OS's but that's not always true. I would also update the ESCD something or other data, I'm to lazy to reboot and I can't remember the name of it... Hope this helps, -Karl Share this post Link to post
Don Hewler 0 Posted October 16, 2001 Only 3d games crash, or anything that uses 3D Acceleration. What is the problem! Share this post Link to post
EddiE314 0 Posted October 16, 2001 what version of detonator drivers are you using? you might consider using different ones. Share this post Link to post
Xiven 0 Posted October 16, 2001 Can you give more details about your hardware setup, eg motherboard make/model etc. Share this post Link to post
pmistry 0 Posted October 17, 2001 PCI/AGP share IRQs with each other so don't worry. Your problem lies elsewhere, Mainboard BIOS outdated, detonators, Athlon/VIA Win2k thingy, AMD/Win2k problem, etc, etc....tell us more about your hardware and software setup, service packs, directx etc. Share this post Link to post
Brian Frank 0 Posted October 17, 2001 Ya. Spes help. I've found the 10.80's to work very well. I've only recently gone to a different version, 21.80, which is also pretty good under 2k. IRQ sharing is rarely the problem, so ignore it as a problem unless you run out of other options. The only time I'd start to try to change the IRQs would be a last ditch effort before doing a clean install. You'll have to change to a non-ACPI PC configuration first, and pray to the tech gods that you can boot into Win2k with a functional keyboard and/or mouse. The last ditch effort would be going into safe mode if this happens. If it doesn't, I hope you've backed up your stuff, because you are looking at a reinstall of Windows--speaking from my misfortune, here. Share this post Link to post
