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I found the driver causing the problem, ParVDM, listed in the Device Manager after "show hidden devices". I disabled it on start up and everything is back to normal. Arch

When I installed WindowsXP I made sure I had the ACPI turned off so I wouldnt have to deal with any IRQ issues. The main reason why I want to know how to stop it from starting the parallel port is because I had it off in the first place and I would prefer to get it turned off again. I wasnt expecting a performance increase, I just prefer to keep off the devices that I dont ever use, that being the parallel and the serial ports. As far as the devices sharing IRQs, I happen to have all the hardware you mentioned below. I have an Adaptec 39160 SCSI card which demands 2 IRQs, one for each channel. A Sound Blaster Live 5.1 which doesnt really jive when it has to try and play nice with others. My NIC doesnt care neither does my video card. Arch

Hey, thanks a lot wise ***. If I wanted the parallel port on I would have left it on, but I'd free up the IRQ for some other device. I appreciate your totally stupid post and you've just confirmed that you have little to no intelligence at all. Thanks for nothing, Arch

So, here's the problem. I turned my parallel port on the other day to try to troubleshoot a printer problem I was having. Initially I had the parallel port off when I installed XP, and I have since turned it off. Since then, I get the following error in the event viewer: Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7000 Date: 3/1/2002 Time: 11:27:20 PM User: N/A Computer: AA Description: The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. How the heck do I stop WindowsXP from trying to start the parallel port after I've disabled it in the BIOS? I've already tried reenabling it and then deleting it from the Device Manager and I didnt have any luck. Some tips would be appreciated. Arch

Try removing the QoS Packet Scheduler from the Network properties. I noticed it slowing down my transfers to my Win2k Server when I switched to XP Pro. I removed it and my transfer rates went back to normal. If you dont want uninstall it, try disabling it first and see if that helps any. Arch

I have Windows 2000 Advanced Server running with Service Pack 2 and I'm seeing both of these errors in the "Application Log" section of the Event viewer. I have no idea what these errors mean, so I'm hoping some of you guys can shead some light on this for me. Event Type: Warning Event Source: SceCli Event Category: None Event ID: 1202 Date: 9/11/2001 Time: 4:34:40 PM User: N/A Computer: ENTERPRISE Description: Security policies are propagated with warning. 0x534 : No mapping between account names and security IDs was done. Please look for more details in TroubleShooting section in Security Help. And this one... Event Type: Error Event Source: Userenv Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 9/11/2001 Time: 4:34:40 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: ENTERPRISE Description: The Group Policy client-side extension Security was passed flags (17) and returned a failure status code of (1332). Any help would be appreciated. Arch

Yes, I'm running a FAT32 partition. I prefer to keep it FAT in case some day I need to do anything to my data from a DOS environment. I know there's utilities to read NTFS from DOS, but I find that FAT32 is just easier in the long run. Thanks.. Arch

Dont get me wrong here. Windows 2000 is shutting down just perfectly. There's just those few times where something hoses up, or my computer locks up or something goofy like that. Personally, I prefer Windows 9x scandisk to NT's chkdsk. I actually like to know whats going on when it scans my computer. Arch

Is there any way to turn off the automatic chkdsk if Windows 2000 doesnt shut down correctly? I know there's a way to do it in Win9x, but I'm not sure of the procedure in Windows 2000. Thanks.. Arch

Ok here goes. I have a couple of questions. I currently have an Adaptec 39160 SCSI card. Right now on the 50 pin channel (Ch. A, i think) I have my Plextor 8x20 burner using scsi ID 0. Tomorrow I will be adding two Seagate Baracuda drives onto one of the 68 pin channels. Am I correct in assuming that I should assign them ID's 1 and 2 respectively? Also, I have a cable with 4 connectors on it. The last connector has a terminator on the end, leaving 3 open connectors. Because I'm only using 2 of the 3 connectors, should I move the terminator to the 3rd connector? Basically, 1. What ID's do I give the drives? 2. Where do I put this terminator thing? Thats it... Thanks.. Arch

Quick one here hopefully someone can provide a quick solution. Tonight I was just goofing around and poking at some Win2k things, looking here and there, etc.. etc.. Anyway, I decided to open up "Component Services" in the control panel. And then I selected Component Services from the pull down list, and clicked on "Computers". I get the following error msg: "COM+ was unable to talk to the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator." Event log reports the following: The run-time environment was unable to initialize for transactions required to support transactional components. Make sure that MS DTC is running.(DtcGetTransactionManagerEx(): hr = 0x8004d01b) This has worked in the past, but I cant remember the last time I poked around in there. I didnt delete anything to my knowledge, so I'm a bit confused at to whats going on. Suggestions? Arch