Hi all
Well, i have been reading so much things about ACPI, but im still stuked into IRQ problems.
Bad TV tuners hardware like "pinnacles" or even asus tv/fm have problems regarding IRQs (some foruns tells that Hauppauge tv cards are working in P4R8L)
I have bougth an PUNDIT-R from asus, and it has only 2 PCI slots.
Well you can gess my problem....
PCI slot 1 gives the same IRQ of Video Card (build-in) IRQ16
PCI slot 2 gives the same IRQ of sound resources (build-in) IRQ17
Since TV tuners requests much resources from pci bus everyone recomends a diferent IRQ for TV Tuners...
Of course having the same IRQ shouldnt be a problem for winxp, but with junk hardware thats really bad (hangs pc)!
ACPI doesnt allow us to change it manually, so im stuck into a problem.
Whats the best way to make it work (winxp ACPI to standart pc???) and what about the bios settings?
Bios version: 1005r
Regards
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ASUS P4R8L Motherboard bios help needed
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The problems are not within the Software-IRQ - that's what you have up to 15 or up to ~24 with I/O APIC enabled.
The problem with some TV-cards is they want to have their own PCI INT# (hardware-IRQ) number. Should not be a problem with only to PCI slots - a good designed board should have a free PCI INT# for both.
The problem with some TV-cards is they want to have their own PCI INT# (hardware-IRQ) number. Should not be a problem with only to PCI slots - a good designed board should have a free PCI INT# for both.
Thank you Denniss
So i really have to buy a good TV Tuner like Hauppauge's (PVR)
I see in foruns that those boards dont give any trouble regarding IRQs.
What i dont understand is why Asus pundit-R does not work with Asus TV/FM board, (IRQs of course) but do they test the hardware that they sell?
A good company like Asus shouldnt sell hardware that is not compatible with same brand!
Thats a shame!
Best regards
Goahead
So i really have to buy a good TV Tuner like Hauppauge's (PVR)
I see in foruns that those boards dont give any trouble regarding IRQs.
What i dont understand is why Asus pundit-R does not work with Asus TV/FM board, (IRQs of course) but do they test the hardware that they sell?
A good company like Asus shouldnt sell hardware that is not compatible with same brand!
Thats a shame!
Best regards
Goahead