WinTV PCI and System Freeze - Help needed.

[starbouncer]

I noticed while in this system, the IRQ's were different. While WinTV used IRQ10, the vid card used 11, and with this card using several different programs (wintv200, WinDVR, NanoDVR, etc..) works perfectly. However, recording is nearly impossible for any longer than a few minutes.
For the time that I can record vid and audio on my sytem, it does a great job.. Very clear, no choppyness. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, total freeze. (no other software is running)
I've noticed that I have several devices that share IRQ 11. These are those. VIA Audio, Modem, 4 USB ports, WinTV Capture Card, S3 Vid Card. None of these can be changed in any way. Does this make a difference?
In all other aspects, my system runs fine. The WinTV card works finEvery time I use my WinTV PCI card, my system freezes after a few minutes.
My system specs are:
Acorp Mainbaord / Via Chipset /Athlon 800mhz
8mb S3 Savage 4 Vid Card
320mb Ram
20 gig WD HD
Running WinXP and 2000 (win98 has shows problems)
Viewingalmost like mine) running win98 and it worked fine without freezing, however it was choppy due to the small hard drive.
e too. I tried it in a different system (so on...
I've tried the VIA updates, etc.....nothing helps the problem at all. I've followed all advice on changing BIOS settings..several of them in many different orders, and nothing makes a difference.
Any help would be great. Thanks!!

[starbouncer]

My Appologies. While sending the original post, my text became a bit scrambled for some reason.... It all made sense when I wrote it!! I hope you all make make sense out of it....
Thanks....

[lusid]

To change those IRQ settings under XP, you'll have to change your computer type from ACPI to Standard PC in the device manager under computer.

And even then you'll likely have to hard allocate the IRQs for each PCI slot in the BIOS.

But if it fixes your problem it might be worth the effort.

[starbouncer]

Thanks. Right now I'm back to running 2000 in yet another attempt to get things working. Didn't make a difference, of course. Can your suggestion be used on Win2000 as well?
I've heard that to change computer type away from ACPI, you have to do it during a fresh install. Is this what you mean?

[lusid]

You shouldn't need to reinstall to change away from ACPI. It works the same in win2k. NT4 on the other hand.....

It could be a problem with your RAM too. You might want to try running on just one stick of ram at a time. One of them might be bad.