Re: why inter-changing pci slot works?

In article <emv7s7$rhb$1@xxxxxxxx>,
Himanshu Chauhan <hs.chauhan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Okay, to be more specific sometimes back I had an internal modem card on
slot 1 and soundcard on slot 2. They didn't work with that arrangement.
I swapped the cards then and both of them were working. Recently, I put
the ethernet card in the second slot. It didn't work. I just changed its
position to the 3rd slot and it worked! This time it is the only card so
I think IRQ consideration is out of question. Right?

Thats wrong. As stated in the previous article you might have onboard-devices
which shares the IRQ with the pci-slots. For example on my ASUS-board
pci-slot 2 shares the IRQ with onboard SATA/USB2/Audio. The manual of
your board should include the detailed information about the IRQ-sharing.

regards

winfried

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