Fixing infinite loop

d_b · Post by **d_b** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 9:34 pm

Just a thought going off of FP's response, can you disable the nic and see if that helps? Or try a different vid card? I reaching here but ya never know.

JMan · Post by **JMan** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 10:35 pm

I am gonna give him a NIC from one of my systems and disable his onboard one. I'll try a video card after that. Then, it's mobo RMA time

JMan

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 11:20 pm

You can still have a PCI IRQ Channel conflict. All your onboard devices, as well as your EIDE controller and USB controller are all PCI devices and prone to this.

On modern mobos there's a BIOS menu to re-assign PCI channels A thru D.

JMan · Post by **JMan** » Thu Feb 21, 2002 12:04 am

I've been through the BIOS a few times and haven't seen that option, and the user's manual online makes no mention of assigning IRQ steering channels. The only IRQ options I see are the options to allocate an IRQ to the PCI VGA, and change the parallel port and MIDI port IRQs. I might be missing something, but I'm not sure.
Thanks for your help

JMan

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Thu Feb 21, 2002 12:41 am

On modern mobos there's a BIOS menu to re-assign PCI channels A thru D.

That only lets you change the IRQ asigned to an interrupt line. If you've got more than one device on a single interrupt line, then they will share no matter what you try to do. BIOS settings can't change physical connections.

He's still getting random reboots.

Reboots are almost always dodgy/defective hardware or buggy drivers.

d_b · Post by **d_b** » Thu Feb 21, 2002 6:27 am

Have you tried the AMD forums?

JMan · Post by **JMan** » Thu Feb 21, 2002 9:02 pm

Good idea. I registered there a little while ago, but hadn't tried them yet for help.

JMan

d_b · Post by **d_b** » Thu Feb 21, 2002 9:21 pm

I try to help everybody out, even a Yankees fan.