At the risk of complicating things.............
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On 30/01/00 at 18:29 Michael J. McGillick wrote:
>Afternoon:
>
>I've been working on this for the past couple of days, reading and trying
>to fine tune and get working everything in the machine. The first thing I
>did was go to the BIOS on the machine and make sure that I hard-coded the
>IRQ's for the actual cards I have in the machine. I have the 4 PCI cards
>mentioned above, and set them as:
>
> Ethernet 0 - IRQ 5
> Ethernet 1 - IRQ 11
> Matrox Video - IRQ 9
> SoundBlaster - IRQ 10
The ethernet cards will be better if both at say 10 & 11 , sound at 5 or 7
(depending on pport) otherwise your sound card will have priority over eth
0
The onboard card should have a way to turn it off, either jumper on the
board or some hidden thing in the bios, leaving it enabled and adding
another card will be wasting an IRQ, on the other hand it could just poor
design. From your email I guess you have looked. FWIW I hate both Matrox
and onboard cards, if there is no way to turn off, then thats strike 3 for
me...its out ! :-)
Is there really no USB ? I mean maybe its on the board but was not used
because of the model (a guess)
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