Setting up Win2K as "Standard PC" for capturing pu

[MYoung]

I was wondering if anyone else using Windows 2000 on their capturing systems has Windows 2000 installed as "Standard PC" which prevents peripherals from sharing one IRQ. This seems to make more sence as with sharing an IRQ, system performance cannot be as good as if peripherals are on their own IRQs, or at least vital peripherals like a HD controller and a capture card. Granted, the con to "Standard PC" is that you may run out of IRQs if you have too many peripherals. Thoughts?

[MYoung]

Well, I think I found a good explaination...

http://www.fbinternet.org/optimize/ntaudio.htm#ACPI

Standard PC it is for me. 8)

[ghetto-boy]

is that mike young of bournemouth

[MYoung]

Nope. This is Mike Young of Madison, WI, and even that isn't all too descriptive. 8)

[fmctm1sw]

So that's what ACPI is. I've been fooling around with my BIOS settings and I notice that disabling this makes my computer not boot. Interesting...