RE: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA

From: Pierre Etchemaite (petchema@concept-micro.com)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2001 - 10:13:02 EST

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Le 10-Apr-2001, Manuel A. McLure écrivait :
> This may be the difference - I always set "Plug-n-Play OS: No" on all my
> machines. Linux works fine and it doesn't seem to hurt Windows 98 any.

I've been told it affects the way IRQs are assigned; With "PnP OS: No", some
boards (seen on several Asus mainboards, ie Phoenix-Award BIOS) try to
share IRQs as much as possible; It usually works, but the performance may
suffer a bit.

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