I guess I am somewhat surprised that you have no IRQ's free.  If you do have
five slots free, then they must be pulling  "Packard Bell" and assigning
IRQ's to everything under the sun.  Sometimes, you can share an IRQ - like
your printer typically on IRQ 7, but I would really want my SCSI card to
have its own seperate IRQ.

The best choice would be to see if you can disable a serial port and free up
IRQ 3 or 4.  Check your BIOS and see. Another thought is if you have a
serial mouse, and USB, would be to buy a USB mouse and use the mouse serial
port for your SCSI card.

Good luck.  Its frustrating when they pack them like that from the factory.


----- Original Message -----
From: Joel Vandroogenbroeck <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 4:51 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] IRQ's and Windows98


> Hello,
>  My desktop is a HP Pavilion running with Windows 98 and I bought it
> for its 'expanding possibilities' as announced. It has in fact 5 free
slots
> to insert cards. It is a reasonable good fast PC.
> When I now  plucked in my first card (SCSI for an adaptec device ),
> big surprise: the computer tells me that there is no IRQ available and
> that I should free some around here. (?!?) I did then sacrificate my
> MIDI device on IRQ 9, and use it for SCSI, but the system keeps on
> reminding me that I shouldn't do that.
> As I understand, Windows 98 is taking care of all the interrupts for
> it's plug'n play cards, or something like that.
> Isn't this amazing? Having 5 free slots and not being able to use
> them in a normal way as in the good times when you just could plug
> anything in yout motherboard without problems!
> Is there a way to get around this barrier? or what can I do?
> Could any utility software help? Any hardware?
> My attempts to ask HP or Microsoft have been unsuccessful.
> Thanks for any idea on the subject
> Joel Vandroogenbroeck
>
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