From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 14 11:29:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06282 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (dkelly@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA06274 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:29:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fly.HiWAAY.net; (8.8.5/1.1.8.2/21Sep95-1003PM) id NAA31055; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:29:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:29:21 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly Message-Id: <199707141829.NAA31055@fly.HiWAAY.net> To: davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Faulty motherboard? Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > David Nugent writes: > > It appears as though irq 5's are being generated as spurious interrupts to > irq 7. OR, a genuine config problem. In fact, it looks exactly like a > configuration problem, except it isn't - what was working, suddenly > stopped. The sound obviously 'works', but it is jerkey and only partial > sounds are played. Go look in the MB's BIOS setup for IRQ settings. My AMI BIOS has entries for IRQ's where the choice is "auto" or "ISA". Have noticed in the past that unless an ISA card's IRQ is entered as ISA in the BIOS that things don't work well. An Adaptec 1542CF was detected but unusable. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com (wk), dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ====================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.