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Thanks to you both , well, looks like microsoft did it gain..... another monumental f-up,lol. i tell you guys what though. theyre are a lot of people like me who are damn glad people like you guys post here,....thanks again guys

Thanks CUviper, it appears my problem isn't unique, amongnst the reasons for my wanting to sort out the IRQ issue, was in a hope to deal with the "stuttering" issue with my regarding 3d games on my amd/via chipset,lol....which i now find several posts on....only i have the stuttering problem with my sound as well, and graphic glitches on 2d screens in 3d games, eg the setup screens of Q3 and deus ex. anyway i think i'll take your advice, and reinstall without acpi, but one more question if i may, why is a video card sharing and IRQ with an audio card completely normal in win2k?

hey all, my problem is my video and audio are sharing the same interrupt (11), i have an epox 8k-ta mobo and an asus tnt2 magic, the audio is via onboard and i'm running win 2k professional. under my win98se installation, which is ghosted - not dual booted, i sometimes had the same problem. i found disabling the usb released another interrupt and the video and audio parted company from the same one. all that in spite of the fact there was a free interrupt already. i have checked the epox site thoroughly, but to no avail. i have tried disabling the audio in bios, and re-enabling, no luck, i removed the agp and installed and old 4mb trident pci video card, then the video and audio shared a different interrupt (7),when i uninstalled that and went back to my agp video, same problem again but back on irq11. i'm certain all my bios settings are fine, and yes i've checked 50 million times. and there are two free interrupts on my system. i have the latest drivers and bios' for everything, so the real question is, does anybody know what the hell is going on?????

Hey DosFreak, and thanks, damn useful webpage. msconfig wasn't the best, but if your working on someone's win9x OS then it does its job, and everyone has it

Remember how you could easily configure what programs started up when windows booted - eg you could enable/disable stuff like ICQ-mirabilis internet detect agent. Is there an equivalent under win2kpro? Ive been through computer management and services but cant find any for the icq detect agent specifically, and about 4 other things i dont want started automatically when i boot. ahhh the good old days of msconfig, one of the only things windows ran reliably ...lol