HOW TO CHECK THE IRQ ASSIGNMENT

Overview

With the introduction of win2k and winxp checking the IRQ has become more difficult from inside of windows itself as a new feature called ACPI and APIC allows for extra irqs to be emmulated to help reduce the irq sharing problems that have plauged PCs for years. The only reliable method of checking the IRQ on all versions of windows is by pushing the pause/break key before windows loads. You want to pause the computer when its displaying the black and white screen which is shown below...

Another way to look at your system's setup is to go to the run command on the startbar and type "msinfo32". This program is quite good and under the Hardware-CONFLICTS/SHARING branch of the tree it will display the irqs that each device is using. However due to windows now creating extra emmulated irq's this program hides the real IRQ and if it displays any irqs above 15 then you will need to check the black and white listing. Thats the only way to reliably check your irq now that these extra emmulated irqs are hiding whats really going on in a pc.

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