Anybody with a Fusion5Lite and ACPI turned on?

[rgann]

Hi all. I'm looking to upgrade my current HTPC with a new motherboard and cpu. I have a Dvico Fusion5 lite, and while it is a good card, it doesn't work unless one reinstalls Windows using a Standard PC HAL. This removes the ability to share IRQs, and it's a major inconvenience. For example, daemontools can't be installed, because the virtual driver it needs can't find enough resources.

Is anybody running the Fusion5 WITHOUT having to install as Standard PC? If so, I'd love to know what motherboard you are using. At this point I'd rather just copy a known-working setup.

Thanks

[daphatty]

The only way to get the F5 to work in ACPI mode is to FORCE it to use its own IRQ. As inconvenient as IRQ assigning may be, the alternatives are jittery playback/recordings or worse, BSODs.

For me, the easiest way to achive this was to perform a clean install of Windows and then install the F5 before any other add-on cards (except the video card of course). Once the F5 was installed and I verified that it was indeed assigned to its own IRQ, I'd install the remaining add-on cards (sound, analog) one by one, with a reboot in between each installation.

[rgann]

hum. I did not know that would work. When I initially ran into this problem I tried every arrangement in the PCI slots. The problem I had was that even when I had the F5 on its own IRQ, and then added another device back in, nothing would stop the new device from sharing the F5's IRQ. There's no trick? Just dumb luck?

Thanks

[daphatty]

hum. I did not know that would work. When I initially ran into this problem I tried every arrangement in the PCI slots. The problem I had was that even when I had the F5 on its own IRQ, and then added another device back in, nothing would stop the new device from sharing the F5's IRQ. There's no trick? Just dumb luck?

Thanks

Maybe I did have dumb luck. All I know is once the IRQ was assigned to the F5 it did not relinquish control of it.