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Anyone know anything about IRQs and XP?
« on: November 28, 2006, 01:58:34 PM »
Hey, so I'm trying to install a soundcard (Hercules FW 16/12) on my laptop. I was getting a bunch of pops and clicks. I followed all their instructions for setting up your computer for best firewire performance. This took away most of the pops and clicks, but still it wasn't perfect. I emailed the company and they said to try to re-assign the IRQ that the firewire card is on. I can't figure out how to do it, or if its even possible. I run XP Pro. Thanks for any help!

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Re: Anyone know anything about IRQs and XP?
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2006, 02:07:22 PM »
That sounds like an excuse for a bad sound card. I would try the following. Reduce or eliminate anything running in the background, like virus scanners firewall software and anything else that loads up on start up that you do not absolutely have to have. Then reboot the computer to configure your start up programs type in msconfig in the run part of the start menu in windows. see if that helps also def rag your hard drive disable anything you don't need in the way of hardware if you don't use serial ports or printer ports on your computer turn them off in the bios this will free up IRQ's if there is a conflict this will help solve it.

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Re: Anyone know anything about IRQs and XP?
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2006, 02:12:02 PM »
Ya, maybe, it was on the cheap end. But I will say that with my last HD it worked flawlessly... I, for the most part have the computer running as efficiently as you can... Thanks for the suggestions.

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Re: Anyone know anything about IRQs and XP?
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2006, 03:27:00 PM »
take out the firewire card, that will eliminate it as a potential source of your problem

XP does pretty very well on its own though assigning IRQ's that dont conflict.
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Re: Anyone know anything about IRQs and XP?
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2006, 04:11:44 PM »
take out the firewire card, that will eliminate it as a potential source of your problem

XP does pretty very well on its own though assigning IRQ's that dont conflict.
I can't test it if its working if I don't have the card installed...

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Re: Anyone know anything about IRQs and XP?
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2006, 06:21:38 PM »
take out the firewire card, that will eliminate it as a potential source of your problem

XP does pretty very well on its own though assigning IRQ's that dont conflict.

You might want to try anew slot it will force a reconfig of the irq's good point.
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Re: Anyone know anything about IRQs and XP?
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2006, 10:50:12 AM »
take out the firewire card, that will eliminate it as a potential source of your problem

XP does pretty very well on its own though assigning IRQ's that dont conflict.
I can't test it if its working if I don't have the card installed...

i thought you were talking about a separate firewire card, not one built into the sound card.

you can still disable it (just the firewire) completely through device manager.
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Re: Anyone know anything about IRQs and XP?
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2006, 04:59:18 PM »
did you disable the internal card?  Either in the bios or device manager that will free up the current irq then maybe your firewire card will take it. 
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