Mr Furious

I'm now on my second install (thanks Toby) which is working fine. One problem has reared it's head: I can't set my computer onto standby and when I shut down, just after Windows disappears, the kernel crashes, so my PC doesn't power down. Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this BSOD problem? I don't have any harware problems (so it tells me) and I don't want to reinstall again.

Could you tell me where this patch is on the Microsoft website? I've just had a look and I can't find it. If I remove or change my network card will ACPI work properly?

Could you tell me where this patch is on the Microsoft website? I've just had a look and I can't find it. If I remove or change my network card will ACPI work properly?

Fine, fine. I agree with the adage "if its not broken don't fix it" as you say, but I've had loads of problems with various PCs running 95 98 and 2K with ACPI and IRQ sharing. Often the only course of action is to move PCI cards around into different slots to change how ACPI assigns the IRQs. The fact that the IRQ sharing is SUPPOSED to work doesn't mean that it DOES work does it? I'm not saying we should return to jumpers, but more control for the advanced used would be nice.

Yep. My 'board is a Gigabyte GA-5AX. The latest BIOS on the website is version F3, released Jan 2000, that SAYS it fixes a Win2K/ACPI problem. It, err, doesn't. I'm not going to bother emailing them since when I've had problems before, they've completely ignored me. Any ideas?

Right, here's the lowdown: My ACPI controller takes IRQ 9 and doesn't share with anything. If I install Win2K and let it choose it's own options, then I get ACPI, but my CPU registers as 225MHz rather than 450MHz. This means I can't play games. If I press F5 on setup and select "standard PC", I get the CPU speed fine and NO ACPI, hence no standby option etc... Changing the computer type in the Device Manager to ACPI support from standard PC caused both my boot partitions (Win98 and Win2K) to fail, so I had to repartition my drive and install Win98 again. Basically, and excuse my language, screw Windows 2000. I'm going back to clunky old WIndows 98!

My first install had APM and ACPI working fine, but registered the CPU speed as 225 rather that 450. Specs: K6-III 450 Gigabyte GA-5AX mobo 160MB RAM 2 Fujitsu HDD Voodoo 3 3000 Soundblaster Live! Realtek 10Base-T ethernet card I'll get a copy of the IRQs when I can get home to my PC. Thanks. Mr Furious

I've tried the same thing. Under 98 I had a choice of an MGA Mysique or a Trio 64V+ as my second card (I chose the latter so nothing would detect the MGA D3D compatability). Under Win2K neither of these work as a second card when up with my V3 3000 AGP. Are we going to be waiting for a service pack d'you think? Also, my ATI Rage Pro PCI didn't work under 98 or 2K, so I can't shed al light on an ATI card working.

How come all games (Half Life, Midtown Madness, Close Combat IV) run too fast under Windows 2000? I still get the same frame rate on time demos in Half-Life, but it's just too fast to play! I've only got a K6-III 450, Voodoo 3 3000 and 128MB, not some funky Athlon 1GHz-GeForce 2 combo!

Yes! The reinstall works just fine. I now get 70FPS in Half-Life as opposed to 50 under Win98. Thanks Toby!

Yes, I noticed the CPU thing. TestCPU (a little freeware program)also quotes my CPU speed as 225MHz. I'm going to try the reinstall now. Thanks for the advice!