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babylon5guy · 05-27-2003, 05:05 PM

Hi,
Is it really all right to have a lot of devices sharing one IRQ? I've read here a few times this is OK in XP, but I have ACPI, Radeon Card, USB ports, sound card, NIC, and RAID controller all on IRQ 11! What ticks me off is I have 4 free IRQ's, I don't know why they all have to use the same one. The reason I just don't like it as at times it seems to me it takes the hard drive takes a little longer than usual to fetch something, or the sound seems a little distorted at times, just little glitches that happen to devices sharing that one IRQ. I can just not get out of my mind that it is because they are all sharing that one IRQ. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
TIA

05-27-2003, 05:05 PM	#1
babylon5guy Member (11 bit) Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 1,250	IRQ's Hi, Is it really all right to have a lot of devices sharing one IRQ? I've read here a few times this is OK in XP, but I have ACPI, Radeon Card, USB ports, sound card, NIC, and RAID controller all on IRQ 11! What ticks me off is I have 4 free IRQ's, I don't know why they all have to use the same one. The reason I just don't like it as at times it seems to me it takes the hard drive takes a little longer than usual to fetch something, or the sound seems a little distorted at times, just little glitches that happen to devices sharing that one IRQ. I can just not get out of my mind that it is because they are all sharing that one IRQ. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. TIA __________________ Greg 1- Gigabyte GA-P55A; i5-760 CPU; HSF XIGMATEK Gaia SD1283; 8 Gig Corsair XMS DDR 3 1600 Mem; HIS H577FK 1 GB Radeon 5770 VC; Linksys WRT54GL Router; SSD Intel X25-M 80 GIG; WD VelociRaptor 150 GIG; WD 6402AAEX HD; 2 LG SATA DVD Burners; PSU CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W; Win 7 64 Bit; Acer 22" LCD Monitor