The good old days- free beer on IRQ 10

[Gurm]

Well the problem here is that you're letting Win98SE use ACPI, which it is patently incapable of using in any sort of reasonable manner.

I'd fix that.

- Gurm

[dave m]

I completely agree
But while things are working I'll let sleeping dogs lie until the next upgrade. Is XP the way to go ? (at the risk of starting a flame fest)

Dave

[rugger]

Flamewar time

Originally posted by dave m
I completely agree
But while things are working I'll let sleeping dogs lie until the next upgrade. Is XP the way to go ? (at the risk of starting a flame fest)

Dave

There are some infadels that would suggest 2000 is the way to go .... but ignore them and use XP

[Technoid]

Don't listen to the fanatics who will try to give you inane ideas about XP!

They have taken the second step into the darkness
(first step is using ME )

A journy towards the ultimate darkness : a MAC

[dave m]

Tell me about it :-)
I'm doing some work in another department which uses MACs. On the naive assumption Word would be compatible across platforms, I took a floppy disk with a grant proposal I was working on along with me to put some time in on it.

Eerh, where's the floppy drive then

They're using IMacs...

So I've just bought a USB 64Mb key to get around the problem

Dave

[Jon P. Inghram]

Hey, I'm using Win98 SE and ACPI without any problems, it might just be your motherboard has a bad ACPI implementation.

0 System timer
1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
2 Programmable interrupt controller
3 Intel(R) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2442
3 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
4 Communications Port (COM1)
5 3Com EtherLink 10/100 PCI TX NIC (3C905B-TX)
5 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
6 Standard Floppy Disk Controller
7 ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
8 System CMOS/real time clock
9 Intel(R) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2444
9 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
9 SCI IRQ used by ACPI bus
10 Intel(R) 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller - 2443
10 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
11 RADEON 8500 SERIES
11 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
12 Creative SB Live!
12 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
13 Numeric data processor
14 Primary Ultra ATA Controller
14 Intel(R) 82801BA Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 244B
15 Secondary Ultra ATA Controller
15 Intel(R) 82801BA Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 244B

[Technoid]

Or he has something that don't play nice
Like the POS Audigy I got (don't get me wrong, it works perfectly in w2k and XP)

[rugger]

Originally posted by Technoid
Don't listen to the fanatics who will try to give you inane ideas about XP!

They have taken the second step into the darkness
(first step is using ME )

A journy towards the ultimate darkness : a MAC

How dare you suggest that we XP users once used ME. Only a 2000 user could be so inhuman!

[Technoid]

nahhh, you might just have skipped the lower lvl's of darkness

[Jon P. Inghram]

If your MB supports APIC you can also get an IRQ list in 2k or XP that looks like this...

IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK
IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 10 Intel(R) 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller - 2443 OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
IRQ 14 Primary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 15 Secondary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 16 RADEON 8500 SERIES OK
IRQ 18 Creative SB Live! Value OK
IRQ 19 Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2442 OK
IRQ 20 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 22 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI TX NIC (3C905B-TX) OK
IRQ 23 Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2444 OK

[MultimediaMan]

Should we go into how Duallies handle this?

[Technoid]

Sure

[Admiral]

Originally posted by MultimediaMan
Should we go into how Duallies handle this?

Remembering my 98+2k, 98+XP, ME+2k, ME+XP days and all the existential torment