ACPI or Standard PC mode with Win XP?

[bullion416]

I am having some troubles with my sound and video with XP and was wondering if it woulod be benefitial to switch from ACPI mode to standard pc mode. Also, someone said some of my problems could be a result of my chipset. I have an ASUS motherboard (A7M266) which uses the AMD-761 North Bridge chipset and the VIA South Bridge chipset. Are there any updates that I should use with these chipsets? I have only been using the ones that came with win xp pro. Please give me some advice or maybe I should switch back to Win2k pro until they come out with a service pack for xp.

 

[rbaibich]

I wouldn't recommend switching to Standard PC mode. In my case, I had to do a complete reinstall because my system went totally crappy after I changed it to Standard mode.

 

[LiQiCE]

If you're having sound/video problems you're probably better off trying to find out exactly what is causing those problems before you try switching modes. I had some problems with audio skipping with my Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 that I thought were related to ACPI, and when I switched to Standard PC they were still there! Lots of time wasted for nothing!

You shouldnt need to do any updates under Windows XP since XP already supports the 686B South Bridge, and should support the AMD-761 north bridge (don't quote me on that though). I was originally going to recommend you try George's PCI Latency fix, but it isn't compatible with AMD 761 motherboards.

My recommendation is to see whats wrong with your audio/video first. If its something like the infamous Infinite Loop problem on Nvidia cards, a simple driver update could fix that...