A8N-SLI Deluxe ACPI Question

[tretneo]

ACPI APIC Support option in the Power Menu section of the Bios. I am pretty sure this has something to do with the Asus AIBooster as the ACPI Driver is part of this software package.

Anyway I am posting to see if anyone knows exactly what ACPI APIC Support is for? If I am not using AIBooster do I still need to keep this enabled. I can't see any loss of performance or functionality after disabling it but I do like not seeing that stupid Unknown Device in the Device Manager without having to install the driver that is part of AIBooster.

Any input?

tret

 

[bersl2]

APIC has to do with assigning interrupts to devices automatically. It's not vital.

 

[imported_RedStar]

a quick google search says:

Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller ==APIC

(and its listed under power management)

and every doc that mentions it says ENABLE



edit: finally found out what it does: allows access to extra IRQ's to reduce device contention.

Quite a few people have solved their problems by using this ...like scsi devices and such.
So i guess if you don't need extra IRQ's..then no problem