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I have a problem with the IRQ conflict in my computer. My Sound Blaster Live and Geforce video cards are sharing the same IRQ (11) and I can't change them.
I tried going into safe mode to change the IRQ for the sound card, but it said "this device is not available" and therefore nothing I put in there did a thing. Although when I went back into safe mode the second time it did remember I made the changes. I tried to change the Sound Blaster Live IRQ to 12 which is unused.
What is more strange is that windows has IRQ 5 set aside for Sound Blaster Emulation. Sound blaster emulation is what windows automatically decided to install when it detected my card, even though I turned off auto plug and play in the bios.
I also tried to just change the PCI slot that the sound card was plugged into to get the auto IRQ assigning habit of windows to change the sound card from 11 to something else and the result was windows decideing that the video card, sound card, network card, several USB ports and other things all get to have the same IRQ, i.e. 11.
I know microsoft programmers are the dumbest programmers in the world, but isn't there a way to fix this?
I am running windows 98.
Any help would be appreciated.
My gforce card is on 11 and sb on 9. I would suggest that you remove all sound items from device manager and reboot and see if windows will find another irq.
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What specific problems are you having? My Geforce 2, SBLive, and TV Tuner all share the same IRQ without any problems.
By the way, Microsoft programmers don't assign your IRQ's - So, don't go blasting them.
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I am getting frozen randomly whenever I play a high end graphic oriented game or play DVD's. Anything that uses both sound and graphics will lock up the computer.
I tried removing all the sound devices from device manager, but when I reboot it simply auto finds devices to plug and play my sound card. I have plug and play turned off which doesn't seem to matter.
This is more then a little frustrating.
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If the programmers are as dumb as you say, then why does the whole world use Windows... try latest directX.
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The whole world uses windows because the government allows microsoft to have a monopoly unchallenged. Hence poor programming, why would they need to do better when it doesn't matter? They have gauranteed OS sales.
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Well, we could all revolt and go to Linux. Or there's always OS/2.
And hey, if the software was perfect, who would buy the upgrade? We've got to set our priorities here!
:-P
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Right now I would settle for setting windows priorities in the form of IRQ's. I know sound card is "supposed" to be on 5, but instead of the card being there I get sound blaster emulation auto installed via windows.
Why do I need sound blaster emulation if I have sound blaster live (which is better)?
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blame the os when your trying to use a 5 year old os for not working with your brand new hardware. im mad at chevy because my 57 chevy wont run with a 01 camaro engine unless i spend alot of time and effort to make it work properly. the other option would be to just buy the new camaro and forget about it but id rather complain about something i know nothing about.
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