BBrowser

Good day all,

OK-- Asus is f***ing useless with their tech support (web site hardly ever works, they don't answer tech support requests or e-mails-- are they going bankrupt? Tech support is always the first thing to get the boot when a company is in trouble).

I cannot find anything on my own on how to assign IRQ's, including the manual. Half my devices were assigned IRQ #11 (including Display), so I flipped IRQ #11 to "reserved". The result was superb : half the devices were then assigned IRQ #5.

Q-- How do I specify IRQ's??

Right now it stands like this :

IRQ#

#3 Serial Bus Controller
#14 IDE Controller
#3 USB 1.1 UHCI
#3 USB 1.1 UHCI
#11 USB 1.1 UHCI
#11 USB 1.1 UHCI
#5 USB 2.0 EHCI
#5 Multimedia Device
#11 Display controller
#11 Network controller
#9 ACPI controller

Where are #1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and up? How do I resolve the problem?

Settings in PCI PnP:

Ressources controlled (AUTO) -- I switched it to manual to try and reserve slot 11 with the above result

Assign IRQ for VGA (enabled)

All IRQ's are assigned to (PCI device).

Sarkast

Windows XP doesnt let you assign IRQs.

Only safe way is to reinstall and use a non-ACPI configuration.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299340/EN-US/

You can also google ACPI, HAL, IRQ etc and see what experiences people made with it. Generally ACPI works well - even if a lot of devices are assigned to the same IRQ. After extensive reading i have to conclude though that even switching to non ACPI didnt resolve issues for most people because the problems were related to other issues.

BBrowser

Thanks Sarkast for the post.