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In article <834615782snz@lgab.demon.co.uk> leo@lgab.demon.co.uk "leo" writes:

> 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 ....
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> leo
> 
I've  just upgraded the BIOS with 10005cb0 from Intel  and  after 
doing  so  all sorts of system bits were  re-recognized  by  W95. 
There  are  still  5 unknown devices hanging off a  ?  in  SYSTEM 
though. I reckon they are all the SCSI devices....Shouldn't  they 
be hanging down off the AHA2940?



-- 
David Longley