hello, i'm a niewbies in the linux world.

I've a problem in mandrake 10.1 community at boot.

my config:
- AMD 2500+ (Barton) with 256 Mb ram
- motherboard: Asus A7N8X-X (Nforce 2 chipset) with a Phoenix bios (1009 rev)
- HD:maxtor 120 Gb (6Y120L0)
- kernel: 2.6.8.1-10mdk

problem:
Some times, when mandrake boots, The IRQ probe failed and so, the IEQ of my HD (IRQ 14 normaly) goes to the IRQ 7.
So, no dma, KDE run slowly and the sound is jerky,...

part of my bootlog:

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 92x32
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0
NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
NFORCE2: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
NFORCE2: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
NFORCE2: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
NFORCE2: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive
hda: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffffa)
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 7
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: PLEXTOR DVD-ROM PX-116A2 0100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(133)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x64
hda: DMA interrupt recovery
hda: lost interrupt
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
init init/main.c:726
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.


What can i do?
How to fix the IRQ assignation without compiling a new kernel?

Help me please! Thanks a lot.

Check the other threads, there was a recent discussion about the nforce chipset that covered this via an update.

ok, thanks a lot!

All you need to do is open the control centre.
Under the Boot heading click on bootloader.
You will see 3 options with check boxes in front of them. You want to check the bottom two. One of them says "Force no local APIC" . I can't remember what the other was.
The option at the very top says " Enable ACPI". You will want to leave this one alone.
Once you have checked (put an X in) the bottom two options, just click next and follow the instructions.

Cheers