Hi Steve,

>>>you might also want to check 
>>>you don't have an interupt conflict between this card and some other 
>>>component in the system. 
>
>Mine is sharing the IRQ without problems with:
>8086:2659 Intel USB UHCI Controller #2
>8086:266A Intel SMBus Controller

>PCI devices are *supposed* to share IRQs.

They are but OS/2 can only if it has the supporting kernel.
Even with the latest, shared IRQ's use a good amount of CPU
were as ensuring everything has its own IRQ, and if possible
set the GPU to have no IRQ, my systems hum along a lot
better.

It's been a while since I tried - pre 14.103 kernel but
I could never get a stable system if my Adaptec card
shared the IRQ, especially the same IRQ as a NIC.

On my current AMD64 PC the USB shares the same IRQ's
with network and audio and that seems to be stable, just a
CPU hog when I do something at the same time like scan
an image in and have it written to a networked drive.

Keep meaning to use the PCI utility to seperate the IRQ's
but still havent gotten around to it on this box, also only
2 PCI sockets available as the GPU hangs over one of
the PCI slots :-(

ACPI ?
Couldnt get it to work in a stable way so gave up a while
ago as I'm happy without it at present, and using ACPI
also ment I had to manually press the on/off switch wereas
the IBM APM driver on the AMD64 shuts the system off
when I select shutdown.

I know I;m getting tired when I rabble :o)

Cheers
Ian Manners
http://www.os2site.com/


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