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Expert: Rider Date: 1/22/2008 Subject: XP vs PCI slot weirdness
Question Hello!
Recently I upgraded my PC had have had some strangeness concerning my PCI slots and an Augidy PCI card.
I added 2 gigs of RAM, a new AGP card, and a Prescott 3ghz. I don't know if that'd have any effect on PCI slots though. The mobo never changed during the upgrade. The mobo in question is an Elitegroup PM800-M2.
Originally I was running Windows 98SE on this PC, with the Audigy in Slot 3. The only other card in the PC was an ATI 9600XT, in the AGP slot.
After upgrading, I still only had two cards, the same Audigy, and a new ATI X850-XT (AGP). However, I changed the OS to XP Professional.
Now here is where the weirdness comes in. For some reason XP absolutely refuses to see the Audigy in PCI slot 3, even though 98SE had no problem with this on the same mobo. However, if I move the Audigy to PCI slot 2, XP does see the card without any problem.
My question is why in the world can't XP see the Audigy in PCI slot 3 like 98 always could? And is there anything I can do to make PCI slot 3 work again for the Audigy?
My concern is I don't want the Audigy to be literally less than half an inch away from the X850-XT due to heat dissipation issues and possibly noise interference.
Any help or advice at all would be greatly appreciated as I am pretty well stumped here, MUCH thanks for your time!
Answer I don't have any experence with your motherboard. So I would like you to try this:
When you have some time remove the card from the system, start the system up and go into bios. Some of the newer motherbaords have a feature where the motherboard controls the IRQ assignment, see if your motherboard bios has this feature, it should be under Advanced/PCI or just PCI. The other thing you need to find is the the 'PNP' selection. If you have it change it to 'PNP OS' "NO". This will force all the IRQ's to be assigned by the BIOS on startup.
Once you chang the IRQ's let the system start, after the desktop loads go into the Device manager and uninstall the Audigy sound card.
Shut the system down and reinstall the card in the slot you want. Restart and go into BIOS, go to the PCI page, you will not see the card there but by going there you will update the IRQ assingments for all the PCI devices. Save settings and restart.
If the OS finds the card you will get the 'New Hardware found Wizard'.
If the Wizard does't run you can try to install the hardware thought the Control panel, add hardware applet.
If you use the add hardware applet it may or may not work. If it doesn't work I would say that the motherboard is having problems and maybe that slot is dead.
