USB PCI card messing up its neighbors??

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Hello - i have just installed a new USB 2.0 PCI adapter and since then
have had terrible video performance.. The USB works fine, and the video
is OK but when I ask more demanding things of the card (eg play a
video) it is slow and choppy. It used to play perfectly.. In addition,
web pages rather than appearing on screen, "swoosh" onto the screen
from top to bottom like someone had a paint roller pasting it onto my
monitor... I have looked in the hardware profile and noticed that the
USB, Display, Sound and NIC are all on IRQ 9 - could this be a problem?
I am growing quite annoyed... could anyone offer a suggestion?
Thanks!
Pat
 
Hello - i have just installed a new USB 2.0 PCI adapter and since then
have had terrible video performance.. The USB works fine, and the video
is OK but when I ask more demanding things of the card (eg play a
video) it is slow and choppy. It used to play perfectly.. In addition,
web pages rather than appearing on screen, "swoosh" onto the screen
from top to bottom like someone had a paint roller pasting it onto my
monitor... I have looked in the hardware profile and noticed that the
USB, Display, Sound and NIC are all on IRQ 9 - could this be a problem?
I am growing quite annoyed... could anyone offer a suggestion?
Thanks!
Pat
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Try the USB card in a different slot (if possible).
 
Hello - i have just installed a new USB 2.0 PCI adapter and since then
have had terrible video performance.. The USB works fine, and the video
is OK but when I ask more demanding things of the card (eg play a
video) it is slow and choppy. It used to play perfectly.. In addition,
web pages rather than appearing on screen, "swoosh" onto the screen
from top to bottom like someone had a paint roller pasting it onto my
monitor... I have looked in the hardware profile and noticed that the
USB, Display, Sound and NIC are all on IRQ 9 - could this be a problem?
I am growing quite annoyed... could anyone offer a suggestion?
Thanks!
Pat
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Ideally,you want video and sound to have thier own IRQ's. You can move the
cards to different slots if you need to.
Usually,the AGP or PCIe16 will share with the PCI#1slot next to it.Then, PCI
2 and 4(if you have that many) share an IRQ.
BTW,things may have changed with PCIe.It may get it own irq.Can't find the
info.
 
I have tried changing the PCI slot and it doesn't help, but removing
the card immediately brought the computer to its normal behaviour...
btw when i say they are on the same IRQ i mean from XP's pov... on irq
9... the bios sees it on on its own independant one.. or close to it at
 
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