Hello Yui and others, thanks for responding to my post;
the problem is not yet solved hence the follow-up.
A few days ago, I wrote:
YS> ----- Original Message -----
>> I've got a problem. On friend's PC, his Sound Blaster Live! and
>> Rockwell PCI WinModem both take IRQ 12 and I can't change it (the
>> Settings window shows Can't change this resource).
And was replied with:
YS> Hi, I just had a similar issue this morning involving a
YS> STB display adapter and a 3Com NIC. They were
YS> both sharing IRQ 11 and did not allow maual configuring
YS> of the settings in Device Manager. These cards also lacked
YS> jumpers for on-board settings.
YS> My fix was as follows:
YS> 1.) I disabled(not removed) the STB in device manager,
YS> ( by disabling your device you can still save the settings.)
YS> 2.) I removed the 3Com from device manager to be
YS> redetected.
YS> 3.) After rebooting, I enabled plug & play in BIOS
YS> and reserved IRQ11 to get Windows to place
YS> the 3Com elsewhere.
YS> 4.)Plug and Play placed the 3Com on IRQ10
YS> 5.)I re-enabled the STB on its current settings
YS> which was IRQ11
YS> 6.)One more reboot completed it.
That did not work. Here are more details:
* Modem is a DynaMode, Rockwell-based 56k WinModem, sitting in PCI slot 3
* Sound is a Creative Live! Value sitting in PCI slot 5
* all of this is on some not-widely-known 440bx-based mobo, with
* Pentium-II 450 and
* 64M of RAM;
* the video is VooDoo 3000 AGP, if that's of any help.
When we tried to do the steps you described, [disable the sb, kill the
modem, close IRQ12, reinstall the modem] it jumped on IRQ5. No dice :
irq5 is a standard SoundBlaster 16 setting. Didn't try to change it to
7, but I'd like to see a better solution : I really don't want to
fiddle with a few dozen of his old games tweaking the sound settings
[although it might eventually boil down to that].
The next step: blocked IRQ5 as well. All is great : modem IRQ 10, SB
IRQ 12. On next reboot, both are on IRQ 10. Of course, no DOS sound.
Try 3: Removed the "Isa Legacy" blocks, tried again - both back on 12.
Try 4: Disabled USB interrupt in BIOS [he doesn't have any USB
devices] - both jumped to 9...
Why can't I manually assign IRQ's?!? :-(
att. Mary Wolden : the SB Legacy driver settings are OK : port 220/
dma low 1/irq 5/dma high 5, midi 330 and adlib on 388.
The next steps I can try:
1) to change the card to different slot... and I don't want
the friend to get into the PC if possible...
2) Try and squeeze the SB16 emulation to non-standard settings, for
example to IRQ7 [if free]. Many games won't take anything other
than 5 or 7.
If you have are any other ideas, please share them -
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