hi

i got some problems, i hope u can help me a little...

since i installed a voodoo card (5 5500 PCI) in my machine, i've got some annoying problems with the sound-video running same time

to give u an idea how this problem is, for example, running music alone in the desktop, it runs fine and perfect, same with video. but when im running music and then i use videos (visit pocketgamer.org (which contains many animated gifs), the music will go slower and so the gifs, the music goes awful, somekind of scratched music. if i quit that webpage with many animated gifs, the music will go to normal.

so, i thought maybe it was my Win2k OS and some IRQ sharing stuff, so i checked and... YAY!, both sound card and Voodoo 5 (and many other devices) were sharing the same IRQ (11).
So i searched tru all the web to find a solution. Finally, somewhere in support.microsoft.com i found a way to change IRQs and why this problem was originated. My machine was considered as an ACPI PC. the first step was to change it from ACPI to Standard PC, for this, i must reinstall win2k, and during beggining of installation, press f5 and choose standard PC. so i did it. i disabled ACPI in BIOS too.

okok, now, my PC should work without video-sound problems, because the sound card is now in IRQ 5, and the Voodoo 5 video card is in IRQ... mmmm it does not appear in the IRQ list! and the problem keeps annoying me. When i go to Voodoo 5500 PCI properties, it isnt assigned to any IRQ!

Anyone else has had this kind of issues with the sound and video cards? maybe some kind of incompatibility?

thx in advance

David

Is assign VGA an IRQ enabled in BIOS?