[general_re]

you do what you are asked by the client if it is not on its face unreasonable.

That's fine, but it hardly makes sense to complain about the OS when you know, right from the get-go, that your hardware is outdated. Somewhere around here I have an Pentium-66 board, complete with 4 ISA slots and a VLB slot for graphics, that I could probably get Win2k to install on, but is it really the fault of the OS when the hardware has old-school funkiness about it?

If it doesn't do it correctly and you get a conflict, Intel support will tell you to do just exactly what I said I had to do.. shuffle the boards until you get a workable combination.

Used to be that Intel mobos had a system configuration utility you could download to assign lines manually, assuming you found the one perverse case that broke assignments. Did you ask about that?

[dalight]

Uh.. I don't even think I mentioned what OS was at issue. But, I will restate my point was all about the New Intel Mobo that is in service to a New P4 3Ghz processor.. and that IRQ's still matter despite all of the hype and statements to the contrary. And worse.. because they aren't supposed to matter any more.. the mobo manufacturers are apparently not providing the utilities and BIOS functions to steer the situation when it doesn't go the right way.

This was the old EISA config utilities.. and no these don't exist anymore either.