I have a brand new system. I've noticed when gaming that when the HD is loading I hear a static pop through my sound card and the video freezes for a moment. This doesn't occur in all games: namely Half-Life 2 and MS Train Simulator. This machine isn't exactly state of the art but I'd like to think it's decent enough to run games smoothly. I understand that XP shares IRQs but was wondering if someone could look at mine and provide any suggestions or other ideas. Thanks! P4-530 @ 3.0 Ghz 1 Gig Kingston PC3200 RAM Asus P5GD1 Motherboard GeForce 6600GT PCI Express 120 Gig SATA Hard Drive Soundblaster Audigy 2 Windows XP Home SP2 IRQ 0 System timer OK IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK IRQ 14 Primary IDE Channel OK IRQ 16 Intel(R) 915G/P/GV PCI Express Root Port - 2581 OK IRQ 16 NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT OK IRQ 16 Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM PCI Express Root Port - 2660 OK IRQ 16 Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller - 265B OK IRQ 17 Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM PCI Express Root Port - 2662 OK IRQ 17 Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller OK IRQ 17 Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM) OK IRQ 18 Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller - 265A OK IRQ 19 Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller - 2659 OK IRQ 19 Intel(R) 82801FB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 2652 OK IRQ 20 ITE IT8212 ATA RAID Controller OK IRQ 23 Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller - 2658 OK IRQ 23 Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 265C OK

this "pop" sound is either bad speakers/speaker connection OR a driver problem. Since this happens only on a few games I would make sure ALL the drivers are up to date for your hardware including chipset, video and sound. If it still happens, check the website of the game manufacturer and see if there are any updates for it. If there is...install those and see if it goes away, if not try an uninstall and reinstall of the game. let me know if this helps.

You are missing IRQ 15 Secondary IDE Channel. Do you not have anything on Secondary IDE ? Regards suatcini

I thought this was odd too. I have a DVD burner on the primary IDE and a SATA hard disc which I think is on either IRQ 19 or 20???? Can anyone verify whether or not this IRQ setup is kosher??? Thanks.