Om man bara hade kunnat ändra IRQ på firewireporten. Då hade nog mitt problem varit historia.. Det går inte att fysiskt slita ut kortet i laptopen enligt texten nedan som egentligen beskriver en stationär konfiguration? Läs gärna om det ger någon inspiration... :hmmm:
"Go into "device manager" and remove the firewire card. Next you should shut down and turn off the computer. Remove the firewire card. Now you have to get into the computers BIOS "Setup" to disable a serial port or two, since you are hopefully not using these "ancient artifacts". Usually you will see a message during startup such as "Press F1 to enter setup". Sometimes the startup messages are hidden in which case there should be a startup message like "Press F1 to see boot messages". In any case you'll need to get into the BIOS Setup utility. Navigate through the setup program until you see the serial port settings. Change the settings to "disabled". If you have a parallel port that is not used, you can disable it as well. Make sure to save the settings before or while exiting the program. Start up the computer and check for open IRQ's. If these ports are still showing up in "Device Manager" remove them! Restart again, and make sure they don't show up again. Shut down the computer and reinstall the firewire card, in a different slot if possible. The best slot would be one that is seperated from any other cards by another slot, if that's possible. Start up the computer and the card will be found, it is absolutely crucial that you make sure not to "skip" any files. You must find every file needed to install the card properly. If the file cannot be found on your Windows CD, "Browse" for the file. You can type in "C:\windows", "C:\windows\system" and "D:\winxx", (win98, winme, or whatever is your OS's install directory on the CD) and keep checking these different directories. If the files can't be found in one place, try others. If you skip any files the installation will not work. After installation, check in device manager to see what the IRQ situation is. If the IRQ is shared by an "ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering" don't worry about it. This is OK. If it is still sharing an IRQ you will have to try another PCI slot, or turn off the setting in your BIOS that designates your OS as "plug and play" and set up your PCI slot IRQ's in a "manual" fashion. This, is indeed not fun. Don't even try this unless you are "a geek from way back" and are willing to prove it, or if you are a masochist, it will provide you with hours or even days of "pleasure".
Getting the board to change IRQ's
Usually after you free an IRQ, a card will automatically switch to use the new free IRQ (this depends on the motherboard, and is usually not really true) , sometimes you need to go through the following process:
1) "Remove" the card in "Device Manager".
2) shutdown and turn off the computer
3) take out the 1394 card
4) turn on and start up the computer
5) shutdown and turn off the computer
6) install the card again (sometimes it helps to use a different slot, if possible)
7) the card should take the free IRQ, if not, you should do the same thing, using a different PCI slot
*Note: some computers have a BIOS option for "forcing" a rescan of the Plug and Play devices, which may get devices sharing IRQ's to switch to free ones. "
