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In article <834498464snz@longley.demon.co.uk>
           David@longley.demon.co.uk "David Longley" writes:

> 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....
> 
> System: P166, Endeavour Board
> 
> PCI Matrox Millenium PCI
> PCI Miro DC20 PCI
> 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. 
> 
> 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.


I sympathise, but I've always managed to get enough IRQs to go around,
even on fairly heavily loaded W95 machines. A printout from MSD or similar
and a little experimentation usually seems to do the job. I think you
have a compound problem in that you're not sure about a) whether the
hardware is working and b) what to do with W95 when it is ....



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leo