PCI 6036E vs. D-link Wireless resource conflict

[Alex Wurden]

I have both a PCI 6036E daq card, and a d-link wireless ethernet card on a Dell with fully updated BIOS, drivers (NI-DAQ 7.0), windows xp ect. When both cards are installed, the computer freezes about 15 seconds after windows starts up. I suspect it's a resource conflict between the two PCI cards since they work fine when only one of the two is installed, and so I have methodically changed the IRQ settings in the BIOS as well as tried different physical PCI slots, to no avail. What else can I try?
There is also a normal ethernet card built into the motherboard that looks like it shares the PCI resources, but I've both updated drivers and completely disabled it, so I don't think that's part of the problem.

[Bill B]

You are probably correct in identifying the problem as a resource conflict between the two devices. It appears from your post that you are specifying the resources of the devices in the BIOS rather than letting Windows assign them. This is generally a good practice and works well. However, in this case, Windows may be freezing because it is not accepting the resources that you have specified in the BIOS. One possible solution may be to turn on the PnP OS option in the BIOS and let Windows allocate the resources. This may not resolve the resource conflict among devices, but it may keep Windows from freezing on you. Once you are able to get Windows to boot with both devices in the machine, you will be able to set the resources of each device in the Windows De
vice Manager.

Another option you may want to try in debugging this issue is to removing or disabling all other hardware that is being assigned resources (ie. sound-card, modem, mouse, etc.) . This will allow you to determined if there is not enough resources available in the system or if this is strictly a conflict between these two devices.

You may also want to try substituting a different PCI device for either the DAQ board or the d-link board. This will allow you to see if this a general PCI resource allocation problem or again, device specific.