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Hey all, you may or may not know, but I just made the switch from a Radeon 9800 Pro to an nVidia GeForce 6800 GT and since then, it seems my USB devices don't want to work when all of them are plugged in.  I checked the IRQ list in the system information and is says that both my video card and an IEEE 1394 host controller are on IRQ 16 and I was wondering if this might be a problem?  I thought IEEE 1394 was Firewire, and if it is, I don't have anything Firewire on my computer.  My motherboard has the ability to have a Firewire port to be hooked up, but I never hooked it up as I never use Firewire anything, so I didn't think that would ever be a problem.  That is the only thing I thought of, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Easy fix.

Disable the IEEE 1394 in bios.

Eliminates it from the equation so you can focus on the rest.

aye, IEEE1394 a.k.a. Firewire a.k.a. I.Link is that port. now if you want to disable you could, but i've noticed...

go to your 'device manager' (supposing you know how)

up at the top click the view menu

select 'Resources by connection'

here you can see all DMA's, IO's, IRQ's, and your memory usage. drop down the IRQ's.

now i've known current standard to be at IRQ 18 (espically since i've done it on mine and 3 other computers) do you have anything on 18?

picture: now since motherboards have changed, some IRQ's arent listed anymore, or hidden (ex: IRQ 2 & 4 are the same, only IRQ 4 shows up)



hope this could help, but ONLY if you wanted firewire enabled, you nevver know...

Ramos