645, GeForce2, XP and AGP IRQ

I've had a 645 Ultra-C MB for about 6 months now and all was fine until I "upgraded" to Windows XP...
I've hit a problem where the NVidia GF2 drivers don't start correctly and seem to have found that I need to set the VGA IRQ in the bios (The M$oft GF2 drivers do work, but don't support Glide/OpenGL).
I think I saw a couple of references to this in other threads, but can someone please confirm that this feature is lacking in the MSI AMI BIOS and that I therefore can't solve the problem? Is there an official list of things that MSI have committed to fixing in future BIOS releases?
Steve

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Originally posted by Assaf
Sounds like that's it. If it's got an IRQ that means it's enabled by default.
In the bios PNP section, are the resources set to auto and PNP OS set to NO ?
Resources are set to auto, but there's no setting for PNP OS that I can find. I think the problem is made worse by Windows XP which doesn't necessarily pay attention to what the BIOS sets. It currently has my display driver set to IRQ 16 (which is a virtual IRQ), despite the BIOS showing IRQ 10.
All I've got to believe in on this is similar problem reports about Windows 2000 and one or two I've find of similar problems with Windows XP. The problem didn't exist with Windows 98SE, so I know that it's not a physical hardware problem as such.
Sounds like my son can't play Medal of Honour (the offending OpenGL game) until I upgrade my PC to a new motherboard...

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I've got a tough one. I have 6 USB ports. Call them 1,2,3,4,5,6. Ports 1 and 2 work fine with my new USB 2.0 80GB External Harddrive. This pair of ports 1 and 2 are direct into motherboard.
However system crashes when I plug USB 2.0 External Drive into ports 3,4,5,6. These are Dports with cables that plug into the MB. One of these Dports has the four error lights which are all green. Western Digital has cautioned against sharing this drive with other IRQs. Says that the video card and the WD harddrive require dedicated IRQs...but I have no control of how W XP assigns them.
Ports #3-6 work fine with mouse, scanner, and printer etc. However they fail when trying to use WD External Hardrive.
I also checked IRQ settings and IRQ 16 is used for a USB Port and for my MSI AGP video card. I believe this conflict is the cause of the problem.
So help..how do I fix this dilemma?
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BIOS does not even show IRQ as a choice..only 1-15. Also BIOS is latests version for my MSI 845G Max L MS-6580 mother Board. USB drivers are all Intel. Video Card Is MSI AGP MS-8878 G4Ti/MX 420 w TV out. Bios and Drivers are current.
How can I run the USB 2.0 External Harddrive in Ports 3-6?

I did load new Intel INF Drivers and AGP drivers yesterday.
No luck USB Ports 3-6 still fail with External Hard Drive.
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16 has a USB Controller at 24c2
16 also has AGP video card
17 has Audio '97
17 also has Fast Eternet.
18 has USB Controller at 24c7
19 has USB Controller at 24c4
23 has PCI to USB Interface.
Port 3-6 do work fine with mouse, dig cam, Scanner, printer. These ports only fail with External Harddrive plugged in. Ports 1and2 work fine with external HD??
So question is how do I check on the IRQ ports using AIPC or APIC...or whatever the name is...thanks folks.

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I use 2500+ and can overload to 3200+,but my mainboard of KT6V can not
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Originally posted by alpes
BUT if I set to 400FSB,it read that PCI BUs is 40 and AGP is 80
I 'm afraid that my hardware can't afford that!
I think what Wonkanoby is trying to say the reading you are seeing is mis read
It is auto set to change due to being hardwired into the chip, you just can't see it due to not the correct reading device.

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windows 98se
512 mb ram
Appears to be no option to force lan irq which subsequently follows the video irq.
I have tried reserving irqs to force an different irq with the lan disabled, but it still loads on the same irq as the video card. Any suggestions or is the lan sharing with the agp port and so may consider it useless?

Yup buy a NIC and pop it in . I had that same problem sharing my onboard sound with AGP video.I know people say sharing IRQs in XP pro is no biggie but with so many available IRQs i dont understand how anyone would want to , especially if they are hardcore gamers such as myself........
I popped in my Gamer x soudblaster and killed that problem .

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I have a KT4 Ultra (MSI-6590) with BIOS v1.4. Am using the onboard CMEDIA audio with a GeForce4 Ti4800SE AGP video card (8x). The devices seem to be sharing IRQ 16 and it is causing my audio to stutter during certain graphically intense applications (games). I need to know how to resolve this conflict BESIDES using an add-on audio card. Thanks.

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Originally posted by BOGEYMAN1 CGA
Oh and chnage your agp speed to 4x ..KT 400s are known to have issues with 8x agp speed settings on their moboards.............If you really want to take advantage of 8x agp then get an nforce2 board
From what I understand, the only way to disable 8x is with a piece of scotch tape. That's just not something I'm willing to do - stick a foreign substance in my AGP slot.

645 Ultra-C and ATI Radeon 9000 Pro

Hi there --
I have a 645 Ultra-C with P4 1.7mhz attached to it. It has 640mb of RAM, Audigy 2, and brand new ATI Radeon 9000 pro. It's running WindowsXP
The issue is that upon installing the ATI card into the machine WindowsXP is freezing and then recovering with an error message about a device failure. In checking the system log I see an error message about the ATI driver being stuck in a loop.
I am using the driver I downloaded from the ATI web site along with the ATI control panel software also downloaded from the ATI site. The drivers are the latest.
I am able to regain stability by disabling hardware acceleration in Display Properties. This is less then ideal.
I'm using version 7.2.0.1130 of the AGP driver. I'm not sure which BIOS rev, it would be the one the motherboard shipped with. However I'm unable to flash the BIOS really since I do not have access to a 98/ME box. As I understand it I can only flash the BIOS from a 98/Me startup floppy on a non-FAT machine. LiveUpdate gives me an error message about the service not being started and that LiveUpdate only works with MSI graphics cards.
In the BIOS I’ve switched the primary video card from PCI to AGP. I’ve even downgrade from AGP 4x to APG 2x using the AGP utility.
Any ideas?

flashed up to 1.90 via LiveUpdate2, after pulling ATI card and running on tnt2 card, and now I'm cranking

PCI/AGP IRQ conflict in Win2000

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Angry & impatient I am, but first things first, my specs:
PSU: Antec Trueblue 480W
Mboard: K7N2 Delta-L, BIOS 5.2
RAM: 2*512 Mb PC3200 Samsung, set at 400Mhz
CPU: Athlon XP 2400+, set(o/c) at 11*200 (thus 1:1 with RAM)
Winfast Geforce 4Ti 4200 AGP 4X
Creative SBlive 1024 now in PCI slot 3
HSF: Taisol CGK760172, fan in extraction mode (to reduce chipset temp by 5°C!!!)
Enermax 80mm case fan
Two recent HDDs (Maxtor) & optical drives (Liteon)
USB ADSL modem
APIC disabled
OS: Microsh*t Windows 2000, SP4
System status: CPU 49°C, chipset 47°C (weather temp: 41°C!)
Here goes:
My system sometimes crashes when I simultaneously play a movie, and an mp3 (I get a "sound loop", system freezes, no blue screen but I need to reboot) or on even rarer occasions (only once, actually) when I send an email (this time I got the dreaded blue screen.
I have pinpointed a possible and highly probable cause for this: my Vcard and soundcard share the same IRQ (IRQ11 to be precise). My SBlive used to be on PCI slot 2. This was (and still is!) my IRQ share/conflicts table:
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IRQ 11   OpenHCD standard USB Host Controller
IRQ 11   OpenHCD standard USB Host Controller
IRQ 11   Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
IRQ 11   Creative SB Live! Value
IRQ 11   NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
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IRQ11 is thus not shared only by the Vcard & sound card, but something told me that the first 3 lines of the table did not matter, however I've often heard (and read, even in this forum) that having a graphics card & sound card share the same IRQ is definitely not a good idea and should be avoided by all means.
Forgive my lack of knowledge, for I'm but a mere newbie in this matter. This I tried:
- Enabling APIC (whatever it is ?( I just know that it sort of "creates" more IRQs), to no avail: the number of IRQs, their layout and conflicts table remained unchanged.
- Moving SBlive from slot 2 to slot 3 and reinstalling its drivers: NOTHING changed either, soundcard IRQ remained at 11 !!! ?( ?( ?(
Upon entering 'system properties' and 'devices', when selecting the SBlive card, in the 'resource' thumbnail, everything is greyed out, no parameters can be changed! Same thing applies to other devices such as Vcard, too...
A most desperate situation this is, for it would seem that changing a PCI card's IRQ in Windows 2000 is simply IMPOSSIBLE, sacrebleu!
Needless to say, this makes me mad X( , I mean really, really MAD
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If anyone could help...

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Originally posted by wonkanoby
just changing it makes no difference it must be enabled when the os is loaded
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Changing WHAT??? If you mean the IRQ, as I said that seems impossible in Win2000 (if somehow could tell me how I'd be most grateful). If you meant changing APIC setting to 'enabled', how do I enable it in windows?
But the question remains: how is it that when changing soundcard's PCI slot its IRQ remains unchanged?? ?(

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Operatind service pack if relevent
chipset drivers
directX
VGA drivers
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Hi all,
my system: Ideapad S9e, product number 4068-38G, Windows XP Home.
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When I remove thee card, the boot process continues but a message comes up
Error
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Regards,
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The computer came with the ATI 9600 Pro Radeon card.
All the technical requirements for Color are PCI slotted busses. So it looks like I am at a dead end if I wish to use Color??? (Some people said that the AGP x800XT might work ok, but this is not verified, and who knows what the performance would be anyway).
A new computer is the only practical solution?

Read further down the page:
Application-Specific Requirements
Motion
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Color
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One AGP slot
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http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=357&MODEL=MS-6593

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I have a geforce2 ti series, with an video_in connector on board, with win me all work perfectly, but with win xp the capture driver doesn't work.
I need the driver for video capture on win xp.
Help
Luca

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AS far as I understand, if I install an AGP card, it will automatically disable the onboard vga. Is it possible to have both enabled? I'd like to connect two monitors and use two separate desktops. One possible solution would be to install a dual head card, but the one that I have is a full-size card. So I'd like to use my old half-size ATI AGP card and onboard chip - is it possible?

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Nview with IGP and AGP-Card?

Hello!
I have a K7N2G-ILSR and I would like to use the Integrated Graphics together with an AGP-Card.
Is that possible?
I found nothing in my BIOS to reactivate the IGP after installing the AGP-Card. But it would be such nice to use nview just with IGP and a simple AGP-Card.
Tnx, Qnt

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Originally posted by Qnt
Hello!
I have a K7N2G-ILSR and I would like to use the Integrated Graphics together with an AGP-Card.
Is that possible?
I found nothing in my BIOS to reactivate the IGP after installing the AGP-Card. But it would be such nice to use nview just with IGP and a simple AGP-Card.
Tnx, Qnt
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645, GeForce2, XP and AGP IRQ

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