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7. When Windows asks, reboot your machine. When Windows restarts your
Plug-and-Play cards will not be assigned to the reserved IRQ.
Hopefully, your system will now be functioning properly. If not, please refer
to the “Contacting Customer Service” section of this manual. We’ll do our
best to help you solve your problem.
Reconfiguring an IRQ within Windows 95/98/Me - PCI
Now that you have identified the offending card and the IRQ in contention,
you will want to try to reconfigure its IRQ setting. To do this, you must
open the Device Manager. Select
Start
–
Settings
–
Control Panel
–
System
, and click the
Device Manager
tab. Find the entry for the PCI card
that is causing the problem, highlight it, and click the
Properties
button. In
the properties window that appears, select the
Resources
tab. Make sure
that “Use automatic settings” is unchecked, highlight “Interrupt Request,”
and click the
Change Setting
button. Some cards will allow you to change
the IRQ setting at this point, while others will give you a message saying,
“This resource setting cannot be modified.” If you are allowed to change
the IRQ, a window will appear that lets you choose from several different
values. Scroll through the different values until you find one that says, “No
devices are conflicting.” Choose that one and keep selecting
OK
until
Device Manager is closed, then restart Windows.
If you are unable to reconfigure the IRQ and you have a free PCI slot, you
may want to try moving Mia or the offending card to a different slot. Make
sure your computer is off first, and follow the safety instructions in this
manual for hardware installation. Sometimes this can help, because
Windows will assign a different IRQ depending on which slot the PCI card
is in.
Hopefully, your system will now be functioning properly. If not, please refer
to the “Contacting Customer Service” section of this manual. We’ll do our
best to help you solve your problem.