IRQ Conflicts
Thought that might bring back a few fond memories from some of the veterans amongst you. Remember the fun days of trying to get your sound card to play nice with your IDE controller, or your modem with your serial ports? Well, I've got a nice fun IRQ conflict to fix
Not just any IRQ conflict, but a really bloody hard one.
What kind of retro hardware would have IRQ conflicts, you ask? What kind of Pentium-1 Win95 hellish piece of kit?
An Athlon XP 2400+, on an Asus A7N8X, running XP.
Yep.
Still here? Well then. Now for the details. The problem lies in getting a Sitecom Prism-based PCMCIA 802.11b wireless card working thorugh a Ricoh-based PCMCIA/PCI adapter. The PLX is detected by windows fine, and assigned an IRQ based on which PCI slot it's plugged into - if the wireless card is then plugged in, then Windows attempts to assign it the same IRQ as the PLX, and chokes at that point. Windows won't allow EITHER to have their details changed, the BIOS won't allow any IRQ forcing on any IRQ above 15 (where 17 & 18 are free).
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