Hi Phil;
My understanding of IRQ assignments is rudimentary at best, but why let
that stop me from offering my experience?
PCI slots share IRQ's between themselves. While some video cards, sound
cards, NICs and modems may deal well with this sharing, others do not. I
have several times attempted to alter IRQ's for a certain card to no avail,
only to find that moving it one slot over solved the problem immediately. I
just built an 1.4 G Athlon out of spare parts from the three computers I
updated in my home. The NIC would not work, until I moved it one slot over.
I have read some people's accounts on how to best allocate the IRQ's to
various devices, but being inherently lazy I usually just move the card and
to this point that has been successful. Good luck.
Bill
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Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 5:16 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] modem port setting
> Greetings All,
>
> I am re-vamping an old Compaq 7478. I installed a fresh copy of windows
> 98se
> but had problems with display drivers so I installed a radeon 9250 PCI
> card
> and display works great. Now I'm having trouble with windows locating the
> Actiontec modem. It appears in device manager and is assigned to com port
> 5 but
> in control panel/system only port 1 is listed. I used add hardware wizard
> to
> add four more com ports but now in system the listed ports are 1, 2, 3, 4
> and
> 6. I can't find a way to change what port the modem is assigned to.
>
> Since I had to move the modem to a different slot to make room for the
> video
> card, I wonder if this has somehow caused the problem (are port numbers
> associated with slot numbers?).
>
> I've tried un-installing and re-installing the modem both physically and
> through the add new hardware wiz.
>
> What should I try?
>
> Many Thanks,
> -Phil Williams-
>
>
>
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