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You are a genius. This problem has been a pain to me for months. I just loaded up XP and installed the 103b drivers and it is champ. Can't thank you enough. Good to have my RAID back. -Aaron

Well the Highpoint Drivers are certainly where the problem lies in this thread and older drivers in this case is more the key. So again if anyone has found a specific driver build that works well, let me know. -Aaron

Man I have been plagued with trying to fix this problem ever since BETA 1 of XP. Now running 2600 and never was able to fix it. I just kept going back to putting my hard drives on the regular south bridge IDE's. Never thought of older drivers. If someone has tried the old drivers and has had it work, please post what drivers exactly do work. Thanks so much, Aaron

I gotta say that I am a die hard advocate of clean installs but I just was tired of it lately. So I have upgraded over my XP with newer and newer builds 5 times now. Oddly.. each time was nothing but improvements.. Even in speed. Must be lucky.. -Aaron

You can always change that darn kernel to MPS. The ACPI aint so champ in XP yet but I love it despite this. -Aaron

In my experience the problems with XP and the Highpoint controller started when the later builds built in support for the cotroller (Since drivers for it were included.) Even if you load different drivers problems have stayed with the later builds (248x and on I believe). My roomate and I have been running nearly every XP build and have put our drives on the standard ide since the 248x. We have had choppy sound erratic hard drive stuff and just plain slow performance. I have a VP6 and he has a KT7-RAID, both have the same controller. Anyway since we have disabled that controller with these builds it has been champ. -Aaron

You dont have to reinstall just so you know. You can just change the driver from ACPI to MPS. One of the few switches it will let you do. Just do it from the device manager. I did it on 2475. Worked great. -Aaron

I am running build 2475 and dont see the option to disable pointer acceleration. Is this possible? -Aaron P.S. I am running an Abit VP6 Dual P3 and have been having to use the MPS Multi kernel because of that mouse jerkyness. I have an optical usb intellimouse.

You can also hit F5 where it says hit F6 to add scsi or raid drivers when setup first starts. This will allow you to select the HAL. You can select on that is not ACPI. I do this since I cant disable in the bios. -Aaron

Okay well in any case I just didnt really see it being an OXYMORON which I already realized the definition there of. It may appear so but I dont believe it to be. Anyway, I am tired and an idiot at this time of night...

Not even worth a response.

So what if it is Beta. What does that have to do with anything. It is more stable than Win 2000 so I dont see the problem.

I used the OO defrager just fine in XP. -Aaron

I have everything working great with multiple usb things already. I am using 1.1 and mps multi. I was aksing if anyone was using ACPI multi in this situation.

Anybody.....