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Re: Plug'n'Play? I think not!

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From: steven
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:00
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This morning I tried disabling the IRQ for my TNT2 on my SOYO 5EHM+.
The result was Windows 95 booted in 16 colors.  This was not what I had
hoped for ;-)

'Dungeon' Dave wrote:
> 
> Previously in <kltb3.35240$%65.81344@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>,
> Michael Reuvers <mreuvers@fieldav.com> said:
> >But the devices don't work. And when I do diagnostic on the network card
> >it
> >fails the IRQ test.
> If you don't need the IRQ for the video card, you could disable it in
> the BIOS to free up the interrupt exclusively for the modem.
> 
> The only reason I've found for assigning an IRQ to a video card is
> for PnP monitors. I guess there must be more, but I can't think of
> many occasions when a video card needs to talk back to the
> motherboard.
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From: steven <zoek.het@maar.uit>
Subject: Re: Plug'n'Play? I think not!
Date: 1999/06/23
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