Since you don't have anything else at IRQ 9, IRQ 10 should be fine for you. -Eric Rz. On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:31:49AM -0700, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > Hi gang... > > Just bought a new box for DAW stuff.. > > Got MDK 10.0 all installed and updated...Got all the cool apps installed > and working ok. > > The ASUS mobo is an A7V8X-MX SE with Athalon +2500. It runs an Award > Pheonix Bios which is not as extensive on options as some of my other > boxes... > > This mobo has only 3 PCI slots and 1 AGP. It's a mini form factor case > and board. I have shuffled the card from slot to slot, stopped the > kernel loading the USB modules (*I don't need 'em anyway), messed with > all relevant BIOS settings (Assign IRQ's, APIC, etc) and I cannot get > this card (Delta 1010LT)onto an Interrupt lower than 10. > > cat /proc/interrupts > > 0: 486023 XT-PIC timer > 1: 1990 XT-PIC i8042 > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc > 10: 0 XT-PIC ICE1712 > 11: 14687 XT-PIC eth0 > 12: 7242 XT-PIC i8042 > 14: 11595 XT-PIC ide0 > NMI: 0 > LOC: 486014 > ERR: 546 > MIS: 0 > > Any thoughts...I also tried the APIC options in LILO... > > Is it really necessary to even have it on a lower Interrupt...I mean are > the benefits substantial or miniscul and not worthy of 20 hrs of boot / > halt / boot, etc... > > Thanks in advance > > R~
