SB live/GE force IRQ is conflicting

[imapostalnut]

homemade pc, Celeron 633, 256RAM, CDr-w, Zip100, 40GB hd partitioned to C/D, GE Force 400 64mb, Sound Blaster Live 5.

I get an error message apon booting that my Sound Blaster LIVE will not load because of a PCI irq conflict. I looked and the GE force video card is using the same IRQ number (11). There is no indication anywhere that there is a conflict, not the device manager nor does my Norton systemworks show a problem. It says that the driver won't be loaded for the sound card, but I do still have sound. It took many attempts and finally manually transferring the driver file to get the sound card to work in the first place. Anyone have a suggestion? Thanks

[phecky]

Most of my success regarding IRQ conflicts come about by physically moving the pci cards to different slots resulting in the assignment of non-conflicting irq's. I've never had much success with trying to force Windows to use certain irq's. Try a different pci slot for the sound card.

[dunbar]

My IRQ successes have been accomplished only after I manually assigned a few critical IRQs in the BIOS - PS/2 mice would fail until I locked the IRQ to non PNP assigned (IE, Legacy, or ISA options in the BIOS). That forced the BIOS to assign certain things exactly where I wanted them to be, and the rest of the IRQs were up to the BIOS to assign. Try setting the SB Live to IRQ5, leave the video card as PNP. By the way..... there is one thing that trick can't fix - some mobos share one IRQ between the AGP slot and the PCI slot immediately next to it, forcing you to not being able to use both slots and assuming that the video card will be the only card in the PCI slot. As phecky pointed out, relocate the cards first, then try forcing the BIOS to set IRQ5 as ISA/Legacy/non PNP whatever your BIOS calls it.