How do you change IRQ settings in XP Pro?

[Calvin]

Hello,
I am trying to figure out still what is wrong with my computer. I am doing mastering with pro-tools and some waves pluggins and some out board gear. With a sterio track of audio and the mastering pluggins going out to some out board gear and comming back in a aux track I can't bounce without it being on 512 samples even 1024 sometimes depending on how the comp seems to be feeling at that moment. I already made sure that my DMA mode is on and while that helped it didn't seem to fix the problem. I found that the 001 is on IRQ 5 with the onboard promise controller. How do I Change it so that the 001 can be on it's own IRQ? And does it matter if other IRQ's are sharing? I already tried looking in my bios, but ever since I went threw and did all of the xp tweaks in the xp optimization thread, I can't seem to get into my bios, it isn't an option any more on startup. Here is the basic information about my computer, I will have to post later when I can put up all of my IRQ's, but for now here is what I know.

A7V266-e board
1600+ AMD Anthalon
512 DDR 2100
Onboard promise controller(I know I need to get a seperate card but I can't seem to find them anywhere)
2 40 gig Drives (audio and system)
4x rage fury pro graphics card (something like that)
I will tell you any more info you need to know but I'm at my work computer so maybe I can get it over lunch. Well anyway, any help would be awesome. Thanks a bunch [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[Calvin]

IRQ's
IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK
IRQ 5 Windows XP Promise Ultra100 (tm) IDE Controller (PDC20265) OK
IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 9 CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device OK
IRQ 9 Digidesign Digi 001 OK
IRQ 11 ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS OK
IRQ 12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
IRQ 14 Primary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 15 Secondary IDE Channel OK

Conflicts
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access controller

I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS

Memory Address 0xF7000000-0xF7DFFFFF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller
Memory Address 0xF7000000-0xF7DFFFFF ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS

IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
IRQ 9 CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
IRQ 9 Digidesign Digi 001

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS

I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS

Memory
0x0000-0x9FFFF System board OK
0xFFF80000-0xFFFFFFFF System board OK
0xF7000000-0xF7DFFFFF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller OK
0xF7000000-0xF7DFFFFF ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS OK
0xF7F00000-0xFBFFFFFF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller OK
0xFC000000-0xFDFFFFFF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller OK
0xF8000000-0xFBFFFFFF ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS OK
0xF6800000-0xF681FFFF Windows XP Promise Ultra100 (tm) IDE Controller (PDC20265) OK
0xFFEF0000-0xFFEFFFFF Digidesign Digi 001 OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS OK
0xC8000-0xDFFFF PCI bus OK
0xF0000-0xFFFFF System board OK
0x100000-0x1FFFFFFF System board OK
0x20000000-0xFFFFFFFF PCI bus OK

Ok there is alot of informationt that I got off of my computer. Someone please help

[Calvin]

IRQ's
IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK
IRQ 5 Windows XP Promise Ultra100 (tm) IDE Controller (PDC20265) OK
IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 9 CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device OK
IRQ 9 Digidesign Digi 001 OK
IRQ 11 ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS OK
IRQ 12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
IRQ 14 Primary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 15 Secondary IDE Channel OK

Conflicts
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access controller

I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS

Memory Address 0xF7000000-0xF7DFFFFF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller
Memory Address 0xF7000000-0xF7DFFFFF ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS

IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
IRQ 9 CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
IRQ 9 Digidesign Digi 001

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS

I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS

Memory
0x0000-0x9FFFF System board OK
0xFFF80000-0xFFFFFFFF System board OK
0xF7000000-0xF7DFFFFF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller OK
0xF7000000-0xF7DFFFFF ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS OK
0xF7F00000-0xFBFFFFFF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller OK
0xFC000000-0xFDFFFFFF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller OK
0xF8000000-0xFBFFFFFF ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS OK
0xF6800000-0xF681FFFF Windows XP Promise Ultra100 (tm) IDE Controller (PDC20265) OK
0xFFEF0000-0xFFEFFFFF Digidesign Digi 001 OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF VIA Tech CPU to AGP Controller OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS OK
0xC8000-0xDFFFF PCI bus OK
0xF0000-0xFFFFF System board OK
0x100000-0x1FFFFFFF System board OK
0x20000000-0xFFFFFFFF PCI bus OK

Ok there is alot of informationt that I got off of my computer. Someone please help. I can't go back to 98 even if I wanted to since I reformated my drives with NTFS. I have got to get this to work. [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]

[Calvin]

whoops

[DigiTechSupt]

Installing the Digi PCI card into another slot usually forces Windows to assign the hardware another IRQ number. In addition, make sure "Plug & Play OS" is disabled in your BIOS.

Brent

[Allen Hallada]

Originally posted by Calvin:
OK here is what I have been able to find out so far. All I know is that ACPI dosn't allow the user to change the IRQ. To make it so that you can change the IRQ requires you to reinstall windows without the ACPI. It says that you have to install it with a different HAL, not to sure what that stands for, to be able to change IRQ's from windows. The user I guess has to set up the IRQ's himself. What I want to know now is how difficult is this to do. I don't know much about IRQ's them self. Is this something that I can do or would I be better off taking my computer someplace and having it done right.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Calvin,
Disable the onboard audio first. You should be able to do this in bios on startup. You may have to delete it from Device Manager also. See if that helps you out here. I believe that once you get that onboard audio off that IRQ you should be looking great. It looks like you already have Digi on IRQ 9.
Good luck,
Allen [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[jeffreyr]

Hello,
I was looking after this question too. Steinberg and Tascam have information about this which is about the same. Here is another page with Audio tuning tips for XP

musicxp.net

Best, Jeff

[Calvin]

OK here is what I have been able to find out so far. All I know is that ACPI dosn't allow the user to change the IRQ. To make it so that you can change the IRQ requires you to reinstall windows without the ACPI. It says that you have to install it with a different HAL, not to sure what that stands for, to be able to change IRQ's from windows. The user I guess has to set up the IRQ's himself. What I want to know now is how difficult is this to do. I don't know much about IRQ's them self. Is this something that I can do or would I be better off taking my computer someplace and having it done right.