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Andy, Much appreciate the info about ACPI and HAL. I know virtual IRQ's are suppossed to eliminate problems with contention, but I can't help but wonder if it's always the case. I'm running the latest drivers, bios, etc. that I can get my hands on, but still expreience the problem. I'm going...

I've recently read a MS KB article describing how to invoke the HAL in Win XP during install. http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=kb;en-us;Q237556 I'm thinking of doing this in order to try and keep the ACPI from it's tendency to bunch IRQ's. I've got a Soyo Dragon+ that has...

:) Are you using the onboard Promise RAID controller? I experienced random reboots also (using WinXP Pro) and through A LOT of trial and error found this to occur if I had my hard drives attached to both RAID ports (as master). In my case putting both drives on the same RAID channel in a...

:) Are you using the onboard Promise RAID controller? I had the same problem (using WinXP Pro), and through A LOT of trial and error found this to occur if I had my hard drives attached to both RAID ports (as master). In my case putting both drives on the same RAID channel in a master/slave...