Hi Brad

Is it a typo that you have both COM2 and COM1 on IRQ3?

Is the USR INT FAX PnP using COM1? (IRQ4 is standard for COM1.)
If you're not using COM2 for anything, you could disable COM2
in the BIOS and free up IRQ3.

Are you using any USB devices? If not, you could disable the USB
controller (in the BIOS and then in Win98) to free up IRQ 10.
Then you could set one of your free PCI slots to use IRQ 10.

The new NIC may require a dedicated IRQ. If it does, you won't
be able to share an IRQ.

Regards,
Bill



You wrote:
>I have Pacific Bell coming on Friday to install DSL, yeah!! What I need to
>know is do I have somewhere to add their NIC?
>Here are my present IRQ settings:
>00 System Timer
>01 Keyboard
>02 Programmable interrupt controller
>03 Com 2
>03 Com 1
>04 USR INT FAX INT PnP
>05 SB 16 PnP
>06 Floppy Disk controller
>07 ECP printer port
>08 System CMOS/ real time clock
>09 Starfighter AGP
>09 IRQ Holder for PCI steering
>10 Intel USB Host controller
>10 IRQ Holder for PCI steering
>11 NE2000 Compatible
>12 Mouse
>13 Numeric Data Processor
>14 Intel PCI Bus Master IDE controller
>14 Primary IDE Controller (dual fifo)
>15 Adaptec AHA-2940UW PCI SCSI controller
>15 IRQ Holder for PCI steering

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