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ATI AIW Radeon 7500 in Win98SE

Nov 12, 2004 2:15AM PST

I am having trouble when trying to adjust color settings from 16 to High color 16. Display properties box reporting that there's a IRQ conflict that prevents me from changing color settings. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
P.S. When I tried to run Hardware Troubleshooter, a blank window appeared.

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Re: ATI AIW Radeon 7500 in Win98SE
Nov 12, 2004 4:08AM PST

That's not unusual if the BIOS is out of date or the owner didn't install motherboard drivers. But you didn't tell much about the host machine.

Bob

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Re: ATI AIW Radeon 7500 in Win98SE
Nov 12, 2004 10:29AM PST

What is the IRQ of the display device and what is the conflicting device? It may be possible to move one to another IRQ. Another thing you can do is free up IRQs by disabling unused devices in the BIOS such as serial ports. These can be reallocated by Windows when resources get scarce. I might also wonder if you have a legacy device using jumpers to take a specific IRQ that the display card wants but this should be rare as display cards aren't usually that picky.