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In article <834498464snz@longley.demon.co.uk>, David Longley (David@longley.demon.co.uk) writes:
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>No..the  problem is more serious. 
>
>There  just do not sem to be enough IRQs to go around under  W95. 
>
>Devices  are "floating" and leading to all kinds of odd  effects. 
>On top of that, the SCSI AHA2940 card is not working properly  (a 
>known  problem for the AHA2940/2940U and resident W95 drivers,  I 
>have  downloaded  the new ones which has  only  partially  solved 
>that).  I  think it may be that W95 is more picky  about  getting 
>these conflicts sorted out than WFWG....
>
Yes, this definitely seems to be true - I hope it means that when
it _is_ working it is more stable :-).

>System: P166, Endeavour Board
>
>PCI Matrox Millenium PCI
>PCI Miro DC20 PCI
     ^^^^ ^^^^ Not familiar with this - is it your modem?

>PCI AHA2940/2940U
>
>ISA Digital Turbo 3
>
>ISA ? Vibra 16 Sound Card
>
>The problem is getting the Digital Network Card to work  reliably 
>with  everything else. I can't use IRQ 5 (Vibra) or 10  (AHA2940) 
>and  although 15 is available theoretically, the Endeavour  Board 
>has two IDE channels using IRQ 14 and 15 so choosing 15 leads  to 
>an error 9, IRQ conflict. 
>
Are you actually using both IDE channels? (Even if you only have
one IDE disc and one IDE CDROM you probably are - and putting the
CDROM on the same channel as the HD [IRQ14] may compromise your
disc access speed). If you are not using these channels you should
be able to switch them off - at least the 2nd (IRQ15) if not both. 

>If anyone knows of a sure way of getting these 5 working togther, 
>please let me know. I have tried P&P in the AMIBIOS setup, and  I 
>have  tried allocating various IRQs in manual mode to either  the 
>vibra  or  Digital card. In the end, the system getts  so  choked 
>that the Miro card tries to share and IRQ with the mouse on COM 2 
>- forcing me to clear NVRAM and start again.

Your mouse appears to be serial (if it clashes on COM2) so IRQ12
(usually reserved for Bus/PS2 type mouse) should be free. ISTR IRQ11
is often free as well - also depending on your printer you can
often pinch IRQ7. HTH

BTW I have had W95 & WfWg3.11 interworking for over a year now
(since preview beta 347) so I can't remember all the details but
basically it worked straight off. 

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