disabling unwanted ports

[Ricardo]

I know there are most probably posts existing on this subject, but could anyone tell me how I identify and disable all but one of the ports (firewire and USB) on my PC MB? I need one for my LDK but the rest are superfluous.
Thanks

[garyb]

why disable them? are they sharing an irq with your Scope card? i'd leave them alone unless they are. you won't save anything.

it's easy enough to do this simply by disabling a port in the device manager and seeing what no longer works. it's no big deal to reenable the port.

[Ricardo]

Thanks Gary,
I will re check my IRQ status. Also I'm thinking may be my DAW is using up too much of the resources. I bought a couple of new plugins for my DAW recently that may be quite hungry. I'm reaching the PC capacity reached message with hardly anything loaded in Scope. Would this sound possible?

[garyb]

sure.

[Ricardo]

Also my XITE is sharing IRQ 16 with the graphics card. could this be contributing?
Thanks

[garyb]

yes, try a different pcie slot.