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Originally posted by harleyquinn:
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Originally posted by philip:
BTW if you put in the network card and you get a lot of random reboots your IRQ is incorrect due to stupid windows plug&play and it's easy to fix. It might not happen but if it happens you already know.
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I was having this issue. How do you fix the IRQ? [/QUOTE]So if you reboot somewhere in the POST there's a table with IRQ numbers in it. You have to check which components are on the same slot. The ones that are causing the reboot are frequently used cards, for me it were the network controller (=network card) and display controller (=video card). There are 2 options here. One will only work if the two cards aren't clustered by M$ stupid plug&play. Go into BIOS and find the PCI menu. There you can set the IRQ numbers from automatically to a chosen number. There seem to be a few tricky slots and/or combinations of slot and cards and it probably won't work so it's not my favourite way. The other way is check which cards cause the reboot (both used a lot at the same time) open your computer and move one of the cards till you've found a slot which isn't clustered with another frequently interrupting card. For this you have to reboot everytime after you've changed a slot till you've found the correct one. edit: safer way as well cause it doesn't involve changing BIOS.
Hope it's clear and helps!
[ 03-11-2004, 03:44 PM: Message edited by: philip ]