Windows IRQ problem-HELP

[ToMmY]

I was trying to tweak my Win XP pro
when i noticed that both my sound
card (SB Lve!5.1) and my video card
(Nvidia GF3) have the same IRQ (09).
Windows reports that there are no
conflicts, and the only problem
i had since installing XPpro
(and i still have) are skipping
and artifacts (popping sounds)
when SBLive was decodind ac3 streams.

what should i do?

How do i change the IRQ settings?
(windows does not allow me to change
them. The options are grayed).

Which value should i choose?

Or maybe should i change a MoBo option?

[Beastie Boy]

I am by no means a Windows expert, but I am pretty sure that XP assigns everything IRQ 9. This shouldn't cause problems as IRQ are handled differently than in Win 9*.

If the IRQ assignments are a problem, then it is possible to alter them, but this is not recommended.

Cheers, Beastie.

[CaPPyD]

Windows XP uses IRQ sharing, all devices use the same IRQ. You do not want to change this.

If you have a SB Live and an older motherboard using a ViA chipset this is most likely your issue. There is a confluct with the PCI Latency on the ViA boards that causes popping in audio if many things are happening on your computer. There is a fix for this, i dont have it right on me. If you need it, let me know.

[chemmajik]

You might want to try & move the sblive to the 4th or 5th slot to just try it, you'll will get better results by moving it around then patches. The patches can be found at viaarena or viahardware.

[ToMmY]

Thanks...
OK i wont mess with the IRQ setting
i have tryed a patch called vlatency v0.19 but nothing happened

I have my SBLive installed in the 5th slot but i will try some others too (KT133A - the problematic one!)

thanks again

[theReal]

I just had to find out that almost all soundcards have some kind of driver problem on NT-based systems. My old Soundblaster live! Player additionally didn't like my chipset, I think, but the new Philips acoustic edge I bought (I wanted to avoid creative this time) seems to have some driver problems as well (at least in some games).

When I read the reviews for the new SB Audigy Player, it seems to be a very fine card, but what do I have to read in the end? "There are some issues with the Win2k drivers..."
Why the hell are soundcards suddenly turning into problematic devices? They've never been...