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**HedsSpaz** · 7 March 2000, 07:08

Unfortunatly yes, there is a good chance that the IRQ is affecting it to a certain extent. The higher the IRQ the higher the Interrupt prioroty it actually gets(sort of anyway). My understanding is that IRQ's 1-8(I think)have about the same priority, and 9-16 have the same priority. 9-16 have a higher priority than 1-8 however.
So, if you can manage it you should try and get your G200 onto 9-16(9-11 is best)by itself. Which can be an unbelievable pain in the arse. I've got my G200 on irq11 sharing with my Nic. I've tried bunches of times to get either one onto 10(which for some odd reason is completely free), but to no avail. I don't know if it's causing me a performance hit or not, I haven't bothered to check in a while.

Anyway, if you can't get it by itself sharing should be ok depending on what the other device is. Sound Cards are a definate no-no. Nics are sometimes ok sometimes bad. IRQ steering and other system devices aren't a problem, parallel ports and such shouldn't be a problem either.

Hope that gives you something to work with.

HedsSpaz

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**Bixler** · 7 March 2000, 07:31

A little backup on Hed's good post. You are definitely taking a performance hit with your G200 on IRQ 5. IRQ priorities are as follows:

1, then 2&9 share (They're the same and only one), then 10-15, then 3-8.

So as you see, IRQ 5 is actually 11th of the 15 total available.

If you are familiar with tweaking your bios settings, you can usually assign an "IRQ to VGA" and then specify 9, 10, or 11 ALONE with IRQ steering for your Vid card, but every board/bios combo is different.

Although sharing is supposed to work according to Microsoft specs, that doesn't mean it works BEST.

Give it a try. If you need more detailed help on how to free up an IRQ, do a search of the archives with your Asus K7M as the searchword and you should find several threads that will step you through how to do it on your specific hardware.

Good Luck, and let us know how it comes out.

**Jorden** · 7 March 2000, 07:31

Whoever listens to Maggi and looks at how his PC works by benchmarking with 3DMark99 or 3DMark2000 is flawed by himself...

Hmmmm, do you have problems in your games??

Jorden.

**Marvel** · 7 March 2000, 09:53

Thank you all !
I'll try to change this irq and will tell you how it evolves

I don't really have problems in game but having an athlon and playing Quake3 at fast setting at about 20 fps :
Like i could say in my native language :
"les boules !!!"

**Maniac** · 7 March 2000, 16:43

Maggi has a G400, not G200!

**Kruzin** · 7 March 2000, 18:50

He has both G200 and G400.
He's actually had several G200s I believe.
His most recent is a monster for a G200.
He was able to clock his higher than anyone else has reported.
Definatly DO NOT compare your G200 to his. He is WAY above the average G200 speeds.....

**Jorden** · 7 March 2000, 18:57

LOL Kruzin... thanks for the support

Whoever listens to Maggi... I wonder when Maggi shows up himself for this flamebait

Jord.

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