I just got my new system running. ITs Asus A7V133 with Thunderbird 1.2ghz 266fsb cpu. The mobo has its regular uata100 ide connectors, but also has a Promise ATA100 raid capable controller onboard with two more ide connectors. Im not using them at the moment. I went to install my USR Winmodem and the installation assistant told me I didnt have any free IRQ's and I needed to free some up. Now I had already installed the Promise ATA100 drivers from the utility disk that came with the Asus mobo, so I uninstalled them, uninstalled the Promise ATA100 controller from device manager, rebooted, went into the bios, and disabled loading of the Promise's controllers onboard bios (it was taking forever for the machine to boot up) and restarted. However, windows keeps seeing the "pci mass storage device" and trying to load drivers for it. I cancel at that point. Is there any way to disable the onboard Promise controller for now? It is taking up IRQ that I need. Or is there no such process? Thanks
PS: I disabled the second serial (com2) port on my motherboard in bios, and freed up an IRQ (i think) that way, does that sound reasonable? Thanks.
PS: I disabled the second serial (com2) port on my motherboard in bios, and freed up an IRQ (i think) that way, does that sound reasonable? Thanks.