On 15 Mar 2002, at 7:35, Debbie wrote:

> Ron (or anyone?), I went to the link freepctech link and looked at
> the network installation guide.  In the troubleshooting section, I
> found the following:
>
> "The NICS usually will not work if Windows has assigned an IRQ
> other than 10 or 11.  This is not a hard and fast rule, many newer
> cards will allow Windows to assign just any old IRQ, but if your
> network does not work, this can be the problem."
>
> There was no information about what to do if an IRQ other than 10
> or 11 is assigned.  The IRQ assigned to my NICs is 9.  Now what do
> I do?
>
> Debbie Alspaugh

  Modern versions of Windows and modern PCI devices work together
well to manage assignment of IRQs.  I do not recognize the problem
that this passage refers to, but I suspect that it may have been an
issue with older components and OS versions.  I don't think you
really need to worry about it.

David Gillett

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