My nic and my video card. They are not conflicting or causing any type of problems. However I play online games and was wondering if having these 2 devices on the same irq might slow things down?

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My nic and my video card. They are not conflicting or causing any type of problems. However I play online games and was wondering if having these 2 devices on the same irq might slow things down?

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How the..???? Why is it set up like that anyway? Network cards go to IRQ 5 and 7 and the video card to another one (Can't for the life of me remember which one) totally different. Why do you even have two devices set up on the same IRQ anyway? I was taught that will cause conflicts and nothing will work. I stick to my teachings so my question is this: How the he!! did you manage to get two devices working on the same IRQ?!?!?

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you probably have enough IRQ's available, 9, 10, or 11 are the most common ones used for network cards and vid cards. Even if you're not seeing any performance degradation, it's probably happening. Change one of your devices to another IRQ and see if you notice a difference.

Again, Why was it configured like that? Especially with a system new enough to do online gaming--most devices are plug and play and the system will find its own resources to apply to the hardware.

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If its not broken don't fix it. If you feel your system is slowing down during online gaming check your average connection speed first. Is that speed usual? Does it specifically lag with you game online, as oppose to gaming offline?

What os are you using? Windows XP is pretty good at setting IRQs. I would just make a note of this 'unique' configuration and only see it as a problem if things are not functioning right.

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The PCI bus can share IRQs without problems.
ISA bus is a different matter and you may get conflicts.

If you have a newer PC you may find that you have more IRQs than the old standard IRQ 0-15 . I have IRQ 0-22 things move on.

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/ar...s/intshare.html

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OFf-topic, but Hey,Nobby,when did you get the A+ Core?

And how's the OS prep coming?

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Hi yanqui,

Passed Core 2 years ago .
Since then the objectives change and if I want to get A+ will have to take Core again as well as OS.

At moment I have no intention of doing any certs.

My work has nothing to do with computers so no need.

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NEver hurts to know the stuff, though, does it? Your contributions are worth reading, though, I hope you stick around a long time.

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NEver hurts to know the stuff, though, does it? Your contributions are worth reading, though, I hope you stick around a long time.

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