re soundblaster irq and port settings the cybard dudek acsu buffalo edu wrote uzun netcom com william roger uzun writes i have a soundblaster board in a sx pc and i have it jumpered to irq port h will this conflict with my parallel port i just have an ide controller a multi io board with ser par port and a vga board should i choose another irq besides or is irq safe to use on motherboards recently i was adding a modem to my computer and i noticed that lpt uses irq and so does my sb card h i ve never had a problem but i m just wondering why not i thought this would cause a conflict i would also like an explanation of this if anyone can explain why the sb pro and lpt can share an irq please do so thanks tom huot huot cray com
