Russ and brighteyes: I have the very same situation. I am having trouble with my usb printer and sound card. Also saying my modem is not present & forcing a reinstall working for maybe a couple days then occuring again. Creative soundblaster said to disable on-board sound and modem and try another PCI slot. I have done that without luck. Creative has not responded yet to my new request. IRQ's are available! I also tried allowing manual IRQ in the bios without luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Richard Bolha On 15 Jan 2002 at 6:51, Russ Poffenberger wrote: > Brighteyes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I just recently installed Windows 2000 Pro on my home computer. > > So the problem is no matter what new drivers I put in, everying is now going > > to IRQ 9. > > Including my Video Card which is a 3DFX Voodoo 3-3000 AGP no TV. It has its > > own AGP slot and that > > should not be going in 9 and neither should my sound card. > > I went to Device manager to each place where the resources are and all the > > areas where you can usually change them > > are faded out and locked solid. I cannot change these manually there at all. > > :-( > > > > Is the machine running properly? PCBUILD's List Owners: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>