What is a PCI IRQ Channel sharing conflict?
This problem seems to be related to PCI IRQ Sharing. 3D games may lockup or in some cases the computer will run fine for a few minutes and then reboot by itself. On some systems the game will freeze every few seconds while the sound stutters (a sure sign that it’s related to the sound card). It’s important to understand that this is NOT the same as an IRQ conflict and it can’t be resolved by changing resources in the Device Manager. This problem is caused by a PCI card that doesn’t want to share a PCI IRQ channel. I’ve seen it happen with PCI sound cards, PCI ethernet cards, GeForce video cards (the AGP slot shares an IRQ channel with a PCI slot) and PCI modems (ISA cards are unaffected). If it’s caused by the ethernet card, the problem will only occur when you’re actually using the network (transferring data over it). For instance I had this problem myself with an ethernet card and it only happened at LAN parties, but never at home because I don’t have it connected to a network at hom
