have you tried disabling com ports and lpt port to see if it frees up an irq?

All disabled except mouse IRQ12.
Plus I've tried resource reservation, no change.

Did you try to set the irq in the bios and set pnp able os to no.?

No such option.

can you disable irq for vga in bios?

Have you tried disabling IRQ Steering in Windows? Might be worth a shot...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182628

You might have to play around with that. On a sidenote, I've had both SW1000XG and DSP2416 cards installed alongside 5 other cards on a Win98SE rig, without issues.

Make sure control of hardware resource allocation is done in the BIOS and not by Windows. Set PnP OS to "No" in the BIOS setup if its available. Also if the option is present to assign a specific IRQ to a PCI slot, use it.

I managed to fix it by disabling ATi RAGE in the device manager.

@ NJRoadfan I can not make sure because BIOS has no such control switch.
@ Robertmo No, only DAC snooping.
@ Jaws This is a DeLL 😀

Quick follow up after trying at this again a few days back:

When installing SW1000XG into this PC and upon restarting, when it loads its drivers and configuration, the card emits a very loud buzzing noise and does not function. It is using the same IRQ as integrated Rage PRO graphics chip and IRQ Holder For PCI Steering (IRQ 9) as well as using an Memory Address FAFC0000-FAFFFFFF which is also a part of DEC21152 PCI to PCI Bridge whos range is FA000000-FBFFFFFF. Due to this memory conflict system would some times freeze up for a second or two when accessing folders and copying data.
Changing the IRQ causes an error message upon loading windows and explorer does not start. Changing the memory address causes an VSWXGDSP timeout and windows becomes frozen.

Tried everything in BIOS from disabling DAC Snooping, to disabling every possible device and changing various settings like ACPI to ON or OFF (IRQ9/10). I have tried every possible driver I have (2.0, 2.4, 3.4) and still it did not work.

But there is one and only thing I did not try, and that is placing the card into the FIRST PCI slot 😵
Once I did that the card works flawlessly (IRQ10 , FF000000-FF03FFFF). 😅 Hope this helps some one who is as stubborn about swapping PCI slots as me.

Stojke wrote on 2017-06-20, 06:34:

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Quick follow up after trying at this again a few days back:

When installing SW1000XG into this PC and upon restarting, when it loads its drivers and configuration, the card emits a very loud buzzing noise and does not function. It is using the same IRQ as integrated Rage PRO graphics chip and IRQ Holder For PCI Steering (IRQ 9) as well as using an Memory Address FAFC0000-FAFFFFFF which is also a part of DEC21152 PCI to PCI Bridge whos range is FA000000-FBFFFFFF. Due to this memory conflict system would some times freeze up for a second or two when accessing folders and copying data.
Changing the IRQ causes an error message upon loading windows and explorer does not start. Changing the memory address causes an VSWXGDSP timeout and windows becomes frozen.

Tried everything in BIOS from disabling DAC Snooping, to disabling every possible device and changing various settings like ACPI to ON or OFF (IRQ9/10). I have tried every possible driver I have (2.0, 2.4, 3.4) and still it did not work.

But there is one and only thing I did not try, and that is placing the card into the FIRST PCI slot 😵
Once I did that the card works flawlessly (IRQ10 , FF000000-FF03FFFF). 😅 Hope this helps some one who is as stubborn about swapping PCI slots as me.

Hello! I have the same problem with freezing Windows 98 after installing drivers for SW1000XG from CD. Could you please share drivers diffrent version (2.0, 2.4, 3.4), I didn't find in Internet, all resources are closed 🙁

I had my share of issues with Dell Optiplex (466LE in my case).
But for Win9x and above, you should be able to assign resources using the device manager.

For non-PnP OSes, Dell has a special disk for configuring plug and play devices and making reservations and resource assignments to each installed PnP card. The tool will make a bootable disk that launches the PnP config utility upon load. The config you choose then can be saved and will be used for Non-PnP OSes.

If it's PCI, remember that pci irqs are handled differently:

The PCI bus has 4 internal IRQ lines, A B C & D. These are then connected/routed to a system IRQ by the chipset.

If you have 5 logical slots (4 physical, one built into the motherboard for integrated PCI devices), then one of the slots will *ALWAYS* share a physical PCI IRQ line with that builtin 'slot'.

For this reason, you should identify this shared slot, and be studious about which device you put into it, so that having a shared IRQ isnt a problem.

For your current predicament, I'd note that your Yamaha's current slot is the shared one, then swap it with another card in another slot, that wont mind sharing the IRQ.

I haven't use Dell PC, I try to sart at some othere PC on Super Socket 7 (K6-III+), and Intel (QX96500 on Motherboard Anovo).
"But for Win9x and above, you should be able to assign resources using the device manager." - Have one problem, on windows 9x I cannot see any devices that not installed right now on system (on 2000-10 we can see old devices that have been on system before). I cannot run system (because it's freeze), with sw1000xg, only when I remove from PC.

I remove my Awe64 CT4520 and now system not freeze, they automatical reboot when start to load. I change pci slot for sw1000xg for first and have no luck...

Right I believe though that PnP config programs are interchangeable. So it should be possible to use the Dell one, or the Creative one (CTCU.EXE) and they both do the same thing. But as I said, that's for DOS only. But it is a nice experiment to see if the card works in DOS first.