Looking Good Info About How To Resolve Irq Conflicts
Are you even using your serial ports?
How to resolve irq conflicts. A conflict can occur if more then one device is assigned the same irq or i/o address during the post. I have the usb controller, the sound card and the video. See if it will boot without any floppy or serial devices.
Removing the usb controller from the other pci slot resolves the problem. If you have a ps/2 mouse you can free up another irq by disabling the first serial port as well. You can right click on that device and go to.
To it's address and irq (2fh & 3). If the individual devices say no conflict, > then. You first need to figure out the offending device.
I understand you're not 100% sure its the serial ports, but perhaps you can. Remove the conflicting pci board. Now you need to reserve an irq.
I recently installed a ieee1394/firewire card into my dimension 8200. If you see a conflict. Irq 21 is still shared by both nvidia nforce serial ata controller and nvidia nforce networking controller.
Move the mouse down and click on search. Type control panel into the search box. Remove the tick from the use automatic settings option.