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In article <836773997snz@longley.demon.co.uk>, David Longley
<David@longley.demon.co.uk> writes
>After much experimentation over many months I think I am about to 
>admit  defeat  trying  to  get a network  card  to  work  in  the 
>following  system. If anyone can suggest a way round  it,  please 
>let me know:
>
>Endeavour Socket 7
>
>          Vibra 16      - IRQ  5
>PCI 1     AHA2940       - IRQ 10
>PCI 2     MGM Millenium - IRQ 11
>PCI 3     empty
>PCI 4     Miro DC20     - IRQ  9
>
>ISA 1     - empty -
>ISA 2     - empty -
>ISA 3     - either WD8003 or DEC Etherworks/Turbo 3
>
>COM 1,2 use  IRQs 4 and 3
>LPT1    uses IRQ  7
>
>Whatever I do, I can't get an interupt for the network card.  IRQ 
>2 cascades to 9, so that conflicts with the DC20 if I try and use 
>the  WD8003  (which  allows IRQ 2,3,4,5,6,7), and  whilst  I  can 
>disable IRQ15 for the secondary IDE under W95 SYSTEM, the DIGITAL 
>network card (which can use IRQ 5,10,11,15) just can not be given 
>a spare interupt without reporting a memory problem as well).

Hi David.

I am not familiar with the Endeavour motherboard but I guess that LPT1
is on the motherboard itself, so if you've not already tried it, I think
that IRQ 7 may be used providing LPT1 is setup as a standard port and
not as an extended capabilities port in the CMOS setup.

Regards.  
-- 
George.