DiggyStyon
Junior Member
I almost lost my mind trying to solve this problem. I tried all the video drives available, played with all the memory/AGP/PCI settings in the BIOS, tried different drivers for the MB, etc. Nothing worked. (See my system specs below)
Went to the formus and got some new ideas. Here is my solution (I am about 90% sure it works, I've been running the system through its paces since yesterday, and all is well so far)
Solution:
1. Disable ACPI in XP
(go to: control panel/system/hardware/device manager by type/computer)
2. Reinstall XP with "Standard PC" support (instead of the default install which is ACPI)
(do XP setup from the CD, when it gets to the text screen where is id's hardware (i.e. when you see the prompt at the bottom to install 3rd party SCSI) start pressing F5 until you get a menu that lists the modes for XP (about 7 or so) scroll up to "Standard PC" and select that one. Windows then will install all your devices with no conflicts in the IRQs. Apparantly, what this does is assigns your devices to separate IRQs. THe default way in XP with ACPI is to assign your video, sound and a bunch more to a single IRQ, and ACPI gives you like 250 "virtual IRQs". I guess it is good if you need a ton of IRQ's. I only need a few, so this fix worked out great for me.
3. After that is done, then change to "PCI Standard PCI to PCI Bridge"
(go to: control panel/system/hardware/device manager by type/system devices) look for something like "AMD 761 Processor to AGP controller" (that was mine. Yours will be different but it will most likely say "________ to AGP controller" -- in any case find the right one by going into: update driver/advanced/choose from a list/ dont search choose driver -- on this list should be PCI Standard PCI to PCI Bridge.
So, in the end, that is all I needed to do. You have to do all three steps, or else it doesn't work. The only drawback is that when you shutdown you get the "it is now safe to turn of your computer screen. I leave mine on all the time, so who cares. Also, the BIOS allows me to do some power-saving features such as turn off the monitor and the harddrive after a certain amount of time.
I don;t really know what all this stuff actually does (like PCI to PCI bridge) it is all new terminology to me. So if anyone would like to help explain why this works (and if there are any other drawbacks!) than please post a follow-up.
Hope this helps!
My system:
ASUS A7M266
256K DDR 2100 ram
AMD 1.2 gig
Hercules Prophet II Ultra
SB Live 5.1 gamer
etc.
Went to the formus and got some new ideas. Here is my solution (I am about 90% sure it works, I've been running the system through its paces since yesterday, and all is well so far)
Solution:
1. Disable ACPI in XP
(go to: control panel/system/hardware/device manager by type/computer)
2. Reinstall XP with "Standard PC" support (instead of the default install which is ACPI)
(do XP setup from the CD, when it gets to the text screen where is id's hardware (i.e. when you see the prompt at the bottom to install 3rd party SCSI) start pressing F5 until you get a menu that lists the modes for XP (about 7 or so) scroll up to "Standard PC" and select that one. Windows then will install all your devices with no conflicts in the IRQs. Apparantly, what this does is assigns your devices to separate IRQs. THe default way in XP with ACPI is to assign your video, sound and a bunch more to a single IRQ, and ACPI gives you like 250 "virtual IRQs". I guess it is good if you need a ton of IRQ's. I only need a few, so this fix worked out great for me.
3. After that is done, then change to "PCI Standard PCI to PCI Bridge"
(go to: control panel/system/hardware/device manager by type/system devices) look for something like "AMD 761 Processor to AGP controller" (that was mine. Yours will be different but it will most likely say "________ to AGP controller" -- in any case find the right one by going into: update driver/advanced/choose from a list/ dont search choose driver -- on this list should be PCI Standard PCI to PCI Bridge.
So, in the end, that is all I needed to do. You have to do all three steps, or else it doesn't work. The only drawback is that when you shutdown you get the "it is now safe to turn of your computer screen. I leave mine on all the time, so who cares. Also, the BIOS allows me to do some power-saving features such as turn off the monitor and the harddrive after a certain amount of time.
I don;t really know what all this stuff actually does (like PCI to PCI bridge) it is all new terminology to me. So if anyone would like to help explain why this works (and if there are any other drawbacks!) than please post a follow-up.
Hope this helps!
My system:
ASUS A7M266
256K DDR 2100 ram
AMD 1.2 gig
Hercules Prophet II Ultra
SB Live 5.1 gamer
etc.
