Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 08:55:46 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> Cc: Joey Garcia <gummibear@we.mediaone.net>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI and/or BIOS problems on Asus and FIC motherboards Message-ID: <37899F82.74969DBA@tdx.co.uk> References: <Pine.OS2.3.95.990711150808.345A-100000@CENTRAL>
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Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > Make sure that the BIOS is configured for "non-PnP OS". My personal > experience is that Win95 (no experience with Win98 yet) PnP is itself > quirky, and is quite capable of screwing up a previously working config at > the drop of a hat. Setting the BIOS for "non-PnP OS" means that all PnP > settings are established by the BIOS, and those that can logically > controlled (ie ISA IRQs etc) can be hardwired in the BIOS. Tell me about it! - My machine (for no apparent reason) just decided to move _all_ the PCI cards to IRQ #10. Interrupt sharing doesn't work reliably on PCI across so many different cards (theres 5 in there + 1 AGP, which is also, you guessed! - on IRQ #10), and the machines running really slowly... Can anyone here point to any good reference docs that might help unravel the PCI 'mystery' as to how the BIOS assigns IRQ's, and the mappings between normal PC IRQ's and PCI 'INT A/B/C/D' IRQ's etc? Or even better - any utilities that might actually help pursuade the machine to move the cards to better IRQ'S? (like _different_ IRQ's?). The only way I can get this resolved is to remove the covers (not easy/nice) and play 'musical PCI cards' - i.e. slot swapping). Even then the results are less than predictable, and _extreemly_ annoying :( - In fact I spent the whole of yesterday doing it, only to find today that the stupid BIOS has moved everything back to IRQ #10 :( -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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