Until the new Award bios decides to change everything. it usually changes the
printer first, I read. Needless to say they took the bios out of production because
of all the pissed-off people. Some guy actually sued them for it, said it messed up
some hardware, (I don't think they guy new what he was talkin about) he won though.
Shawn Bowen wrote:
> I mostly agree Dan, however Printer ports almost always use IRQ 7 by
> default. Most onboard IDE controllers have traditionally used IRQ 14 and
> 15, most SCSI adaptors use IRQ 10 by default, Sound Cards typically 5, NIC's
> usually use 10 or 11 by default, a lot of VGA Cards typically use 9 or 10,
> COM1&COM3 uses IRQ4, and COM2&COM4 use IRQ 3. Typically newer devices can
> share IRQ's. However devices that are extremely timing sensitive and most
> legacy hardware (Serial Ports) need a dedicated IRQ.
>
> Almost always when a message is actually posted by the Bios it is an IRQ
> conflict. Memory offset conflicts usually are not reported by the Bios on
> PC's and low end servers. Most Bios manufactures neglect to check for this
> and only check the IRQ's. I'm pretty darn sure it was the network card he
> was having a conflict with, the Bios saw it, and will adjust accordingly
> upon reboot if it's a decent box.
>
> Take care,
>
> Shawn Bowen
> Consultant
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>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@BUFFNET.NET
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@BUFFNET.NET]On Behalf Of Dan Burrows
> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 2:56 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: DML: RE: RE: AAAARRRGGGGHH!
>
> The boards bios has a setting for ATA, you can set it as auto with
> Award bios by selecting auto to the right of where you tell the mother
> board the landing zone, sectors etc of the hard disks. The Hard Drive
> was conflicting with your printer port, prolly card, if your printer
> port(s) are on a card. Otherwise it was conflicting with a PCI card.
> When you get that message it is usually not the actual controller that
> is conflicting, it a card. A hardware conflict is when two or more cards
> and/or devices share the same address or interrupt ranges. The conflict
> can be a com, I/Q, interrupt request, memory range, inout/output range,
> etc. Some bios have an automatic option that every time you go into the
> settings screen/mode that scans for all available resources and sets
> them automatically for peak performance. (unless you disable it)
>
> (I Build Computers)
>
> Ronald Wong wrote:
> >
> > No, as a matter of fact, I'm not. I think this system is too old to have
> an
> > ATA controller in it unless I buy one on a PCI card. It should be fine
> this
> > way. It's still working at 66 Mbps transfer rate. That's good enough for
> > this system. It's just for testing anyway. The system I'm on typing this
> > e-mail has ATA 100 on the motherboard.
> >
> > Ron
> > 00 PB SLT QC 4X2 5.9 46RE 3.92 LSD
> > For modifications see my DML Profile (URL follows)
> > http://www.twistedbits.net/WWWProfile/dakota/Kw9pV1EkFeOYY
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> > [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Bernd D. Ratsch
> > Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 6:10 PM
> > To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> > Subject: DML: RE: AAAARRRGGGGHH!
> >
> > Lemme guess...you're using the Maxtor ATA/100 Controller.
> >
> > - Bernd
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> > [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net] On Behalf Of Ronald Wong
> > Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 6:51 PM
> > To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> > Subject: DML: AAAARRRGGGGHH!
> >
> > Okay, PC buffs. I am trying to install a new Maxtor Diamondmax VL 30 GB
> > hard drive in an old PC of mine. This old PC is a P-II 333 mhz.
> > Motherboard has the 440 LX chipset on it.
> >
> > When I boot up I get the following error:
> >
> > ERROR-Resource Conflict PCI Network Controller
> > Bus: 00, Device: 10,
> > Function: 00
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ron
> > 00 PB SLT QC 4X2 5.9 46RE 3.92 LSD
> > For modifications see my DML Profile (URL follows)
> > http://www.twistedbits.net/WWWProfile/dakota/Kw9pV1EkFeOYY
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