IRQ question

   A few weeks ago I purchased a Saitek Eclipse keyboard, and experienced a windows boot up slow down.  I had asked saitek support for help with this, and they requested my dxdiag and sysinfo. After a few days and trying different things they basically said they would get back to me.  As it turns out all I had to do was disable my USB support in Bios V1.6.  Now my system boots up just like it did with the MS internet ps2 keyboard.  Presently I have no  problems that I am aware of with my system.   A few days ago I received another note from Saitek support , and they sent this..........
Your MSINFO report noted the following conflicts/sharing between devices:
[Conflicts/Sharing]
IRQ 18   NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller   
IRQ 18   Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller   
IRQ 18   Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM)   
IRQ 18   RADEON X850 XT     
IRQ 19   Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller   
IRQ 19   VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller   
You may want to contact your PC manufacturer to see if you can place these devices on separate IRQs.     ( which is me !)
Additionally, consider updating the software for your Standard USB Host Controller by contacting your PC manufacturer for assistance. Also, uninstall the software for all other game controllers that are no in use when using the Saitek controller and make sure to disconnect them, as well as all other non-essential USB devices.
            What does this mean?   I wrote them back and told them what i did to solve the keyboard problem , but I am a little concerned about the response they sent. Is it something that I should be concerned over or was it just Saiteks last shot at solving a problem they have no clue about.
                                                                                                                                                                  Thanks,
                                                                                                                                                                           Mike

I wouldn't worry about it...
Windows shares IRQs between devices, without any problem. (Back when I used Win95 and 98, you did have to be careful with certain devices sharing, but this is no longer the case with XP and newer hardware)
for example, these are the "shared devices" from my MSInfo report:
IRQ 20   Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
IRQ 20   NVIDIA nForce3 250 Serial ATA Controller (v2.6)
IRQ 21   NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator
IRQ 21   NVIDIA nForce3 250 Serial ATA Controller (v2.6)
IRQ 22   Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
IRQ 22   Realtek AC'97 Audio
IRQ 19   Creative Modem Blaster V.92 DI5733
IRQ 19   VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller

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    Probing IDE interface ide3...
    Probing IDE interface ide4...
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    md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
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    md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
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    32regs : 812.000 MB/sec
    32regs_prefetch: 764.000 MB/sec
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    raid6: int32x4 265 MB/s
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    However the first check was not performed right before the shutdown, but few hours before it.
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    (...) varying from browser cache data increase to a cronjob like updatedb, or even you installing or downloading something.
    When I've read these words I have started to "scroll" back in my memory buffer and eventually I've remembered that the only thing I did as superuser was to download some Firefox extensions which (surprise or not...) summed up to ~12M.
    So we have the answer for this one too thanks to your hints
    PS: That's exactly the reason why I've made a small / partition - to keep a close eye on it's usage and to ring some allarms when needed.
    Again, thank you. 

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