IRQ's and Priority

[Beemer]

In system Information I have my Sound Blaster Live on IRQ3. It's there on purpose. IRQ3 is noted as having priority 11. Does this mean that with a priority of 11 that the sound card will be placed low on the priority scale??
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<u>Weird Thing Happening</u>
My Logitech Sound Man II Speakers have a APM suspend feature.
e.g.:
I created sound events for ICQ.

Andy is one sound wav file.
Is Online is the second.

These 2 sounds combine to tell me who just came online.

If my machine has been idle for 15 minutes, the first sound doesn't play but the second does. If not idle, the sounds play just fine. This didn't happen on my old machine. Compaq 4540 233MHz with 32MB EDO RAM and onboard audio.

Now with AMD 1.1 256MB PC133, cas2 SDRAM and SB Live! Value, I get the missing sound wav problem. It's like it has to wake up the sound card adn the machine goes ahead with the task with the sound card not ready.

I've turned this machine into a Standard PC type at the beginning of the install of Win2000 Pro and I'm going to switch the IRQ assignment in the BIOS. This happened with the computer being ACPI type as well.

Back to the question. Would the priority have anything to do with this symptom of delayed and missed sound?

If so, I'm going to reassign my IRQ's to the way I think they should be for slotted hardware and USB's.

Cheers!

[smokin1]

Yes..priority 11 is getting up there..all interupts below that will be dealt with first..it's usually not an issue with an up to date system such as yours..but irq3 is not a good place for your SB live..mine is on irq11..
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[Beemer]

Thanks Smokin1
Any suggestions of how my assignments should be sorted out? Taking into account, WinY2K stills owns part of the assignment privileges. I can move cards around in the BIOS.

Cheers!

[This message has been edited by Beemer (edited 07-22-2001).]

[Beemer]

Moved the SB Live card to IRQ 10. Haven't had a chance to hear if it made the difference yet.

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Is there any way of getting the USB's and the D-Link to separate IRQ's?

Cheers!

[smokin1]

Hmm..I wish I had a SB Live on my W2K machine
mine sorts out like this:
0 system timer
1 keyboard
3 com2
4 com1
5 awe64
6 standard floopy disk controller
8 system CMOS/real time clock
10 USB universal host controller
11 ethernet card
12 Rage xpert 2000 Pro
13 numeric data processor
14 Primary IDE channel
15 Secondary IDE channel

not sure re: your question. Do you use USB?

[Beemer]

I use a web cam and when I get the ink, a usb printer.

Cheers!

[Beemer]

I reiterate:
Is there any way of getting the USB's and the D-Link to separate IRQ's?

The same for SB Live and the Promise Ultra controller.

Cheers!