> Hi I am sort of new to Windows 2000 and I was wondering if
> someone could help me out. My video card, sound card, network
> card, and USB all are using IRQ 11!! I didn't realise this until
> someone talked about the mad mouse disease, which I have, so I
> checked out my system information. But when I go into device
> manager and look at the resources of any of the hardware the "Use
> automatic settings" is checked and grayed. So how can I change
> the IRQ that windows is using? I tried changing the IRQ in the
> BIOS, but that didn't change it in windows. And I tried going
> into safe mode, but it was still grayed out. And since it is two
> different cards and the USB, I'm not sure if changing slots will help.

        With PCI (and AGP which is very similar) the IRQ of a device is based on
the slot it's plugged in to. Therefore changing the slots that your network
card and sound card are in should solve your problem. TTYL

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