enrico
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Enrico Demarin wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I just found it (?)
> >
> > I set in the BIOS to initialize cards for Windows 95 (TM) OS.
> >
> > Why did it work this way and not with Non-Plugnplay OS, i dont know.
>
> Ahhh. More than likely, when you had plug and play turned off, there was an
> ISA device using an IRQ that was NOT reserved in the BIOS, and this IRQ was
> getting dual allocated to the eepro at the same time.
>
> Take a look in the BIOS for a section for reserving IRQs for ISA devices,
> and make sure that any device that is on the ISA bus has its IRQ listed
> there as reserved.
>
> Once you turned on PnP, the BIOS automagically reserved the ISA IRQs so that
> they didn't conflict with the PCI devices.
>
> Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
>
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