On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:09:11 -0700
The Laughing Gnome wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:47:04 +0200, "Steven"
wrote:


Most likely not the soundcard but an irq-sharing issue - once the
sb-card is on its own irq the problem goes away! XP is prone to this
problem coz XP is junkware...

:-)

Huh? With APIC selected in bios XP gives you 23 IRQ's. XP handles IRQ
addressing just fine. What OS do you recommend we run our games on?

There are many motherboards that have two or more slots tied together so
that both share the same interrupt. The operating system cannot
override this.

As for XP handling IRQ addressing just fine, there is a very special
place in Hell reserved for whoever was responsible for implementing Plug
and Pray without manual overrides. You're basically forced to trust an
Artificial Stupidity, which is always an unwise course of action.

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