[CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

[Giles Coochey]

On 18/01/2011 15:34, Drew Weaver wrote:
> Ah, it is a PCI card and there is only one PCI slot..
>
> -Drew
>
>
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> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Giles Coochey
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:24 AM
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> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared
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> On 18/01/2011 15:22, Drew Weaver wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We have built a couple of CentOS 5.5 systems on the Intel DH67BL
>> (Sandy Bridge) motherboard and overall they work pretty well.
>>
>> I'm having one problem which keeps cropping up and that is an error
>> message that says:
>>
>> IRQ 177 nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option)
>>
>> report bad irq, references CPU idle
>>
>> then it references usb_hcd_irq and e1000_intr
>>
>> then it disables the add-on PCI E1000 card and disconnects itself from
>> the network.
>>
>> I'm assuming what is happening here is the USB controller and the
>> add-on E1000 controller we put in are having an old school IRQ
>> conflict, the question is why and how can I avoid it?
>>
>> I have tried disabling all of the extra stuff in the BIOS that I
>> could, and this still happens fairly frequently.
>>
>> Any advice would be great.
>>
>>
> Have you tried putting one of the cards in a different slot?
>
Does the BIOS allow you to manually set a IRQ to the PCI line?

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