Just Learned a New XP Installation Tip

[Soopafresh]

New for moi, at least. Good one, though.

"There is one thing to look out for during the installation. After the first reboot you are at some point prompted to press the key ' F6 ' in order to install additional drivers for mass storage devices. At this point you should definitely press the key 'F5' instead. A little later an on-screen menu will be displayed leaving you a choice between an ' ACPI-PC ' and a ' standard PC '. It is crucial to select 'standard pc' at this stage. ACPI simply creates too many problems and is inclined to configure all PCI cards on one
INTERRUPT (IRQ) which has been proven as a performance killer."

From http://www.timos-welt.de/cubase/xp_tips_e.htm

[offline]

Kind of old news but good to know.
IRQ Sharing is not always a bad thing
but to check if you might have a
problem:

1) Start > Run > msinfo32.exe
2) expand hadware resources list
3) chose conflics / sharing

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To turn off ACPI under windows XP
go to your device manager and Expand
Computer.

It should say Advanced Configuration
And Power Interface (ACPI) PC.

Right click that, and Properties.
Under driver tab, click update driver,
next, click display a list blah blah, next,
Click show all hardware in this class, Under
standard computer mfg's choose
standard PC, next, then yes yes whatever.