hardware conflicts

[Jeremy21b]

I recently bought a new video card. After I installed it, my sound card stopped working. I get an error 'A device id has been used that is out of range for your system'. When I go into the device manager both my video card and sound card are on IRQ 09. It won't let me change either IRQ though. By the way I am running Windows XP. How can I fix this?

 

[CitrixEngineer]

ATI video card, perchance?

I've seen a lot of odd issues caused by these recently. These have been caused mainly by 2 things, as far as I can see;

1) Installing an ATI card where there was a different card before

2) Attemtping to uninstall an ATI card and install a different one. The ATI drivers do not cleanly uninstall, and loads of junk gets left behind.

The only fix I've found is a rebuild :-(

Try this first (this forum has all the best links!)
thread749-304140 CitrixEngineer@yahoo.co.uk

 

[Jeremy21b]

yep...you guessed right, installed XP with a ATI Rage Fury Pro. I just got a new card, not ATI. So you weren't able to remove the 'junk' the ATI card left behind? When you say rebuild you mean a drive format or just a windows reinstall? I have a large hard drive and it would take a while to back everything up. Thanks for the help so far.

 

[Psychosylph]

Just a quick thought...

Try disabling the Plug 'n' Play OS setting in CMOS (tell the board that the OS is not Plug 'n' Play aware). That will let the board determine your IRQs instead of the OS. It works wonders sometimes...



I LOVE troubleshooting...

 

[Jeremy21b]

I did try disabling plug n play in cmos. I fixed the irq's. They all have their own IRQ now, but my sound card still doesn't work. I'm thinking it does have to do with my old ATI video card. I've had a problem with ATI drivers being unreliable in the past. The fact that someone else had this problem when removing an ATI vid card, leads me to believe this is the problem. If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know

 

[MA5]

Hi Jeremy21b
Re- “how do I change IRQs” in PC hardware-Peripheral and “hardware conflict” thread in PC hardware-General.

Could you in future use one thread per problem please.

You do not attract any more answers your way.

You are just doubling our efforts.

 

[Jeremy21b]

hey all. Thanks for your help with this problem. In the end I reinstalled windows XP and the problem was fixed. I still believe the problem was the old ATI vid card. I didn't have to format my hard drive, so I'm happy. Thanks again.