strubby

How do I disable ACPI? I have noticed that one processor is always about 50% and the other doesn't start to do anything usually until the first is almost peaked. My onboard USB is also stuffed, it works in everything else except Win2k.

It is a 7200 RMP HDD. The bios is the lastest version becuase the mainboard needed this otherwise the PIII 550's were not able to be used. They are the max that the board supports. The board is about 2 1/2 years old. It was only running one chip until about a year ago. And there are no RAM settings in the bios that I know of, ie for setting the amount of RAM.

I have a Dual P3 550, 256SDRAM, SBlive!, i740, Promise ATA100, IBM DTLA 15GB. On a QDI BrillianX 4 mobo. In linux my system runs sweet.... but as soon as i go to Win2k Pro everthing starts pissing me off. The system starts to run at the speed of a 200, when I play multi sounds or movies or any sounds whilst accessing the HDD stagger. And it doesn't do in Linux or WinME. And games and progs just run generally damn slow. Nothing is unstable it is just that it is sooo sooo soooooo SLOW. Can anyone help me? Is there issues with duals, SBlive!...... please help. I've tried a differnt sound card, RAM, vid card, onboard controller, HDD. ( everything but taking a processor out )... cheers, Ian