On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 at 21:21:57 -0600, Martin Kurr wrote:
>New pieced-together system.  Everything went fine except
>Windows 2000 Pro assigned all PnP peripherals to IRQ 9...

This is the default way Windows 2000 enumerates hardware when
it is installed on an Advanced Configuration Power Interface
(ACPI) compliant PC. You can't change this method of IRQ
steering without doing a repair reinstall and at the proper
moment of Setup specifying that a non-ACPI HAL (Hardware
Abstraction Layer) be used. See "How to Troubleshoot Windows
2000 Hardware Abstraction Layer Issues" at
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q237/5/56.ASP

As long as your computer is ACPI compliant and the PnP
devices have proper device drivers, things should work fine
the way they are.

Regards,
Bill

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