Siticky keys gone??? I can't believe it !

[FrogMaster 0]

My sticky keys prob seems to have gone away (cross fingers)!

Like most of you guys, I had a severe sticky keys prob until last Saturday when I did the following :

- manually assign irq and dmas in the bios for the sound card

- disable com2 in the bios to free an irq (I need not com2)

- upgrade to 2195 (I was still on 2183 RC3 waiting for a bargain)

- complete clean install

- multiprocessor standard PC install (no ACPI).

I have played a lot of Q3A games since, both on local with bots, on the lan and on the internet : no sticky keys

 

I wonder which of the above has done the trick.

Maybe assigning stuff to the sound card AND disabling COM2 to free resources brought some stability?

PS: I use 5.14 drivers.

[FrogMaster 0]

Sorry forgot two pts:

I reduced L2 cache latency from 5 to 3.

Don't think it's important thu, tis good for speed, maybe not for stability.

My rig's specs:

 

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Abit BP6 - QQ bios - 2*Celery@583 MHz - 192 MB Pc100 Ram - Seagate 6 GB - Seagate 4 GB - HPT66 IBM 20 GB Ultra 66 - Iomega // Zip100 - Toshiba DVD SD-M1212 - CDR Sony CDU 928E - HP Deskjet 815C - Philips Vesta Pro Webcam - NIC HP 10/100 - Elsa Erazor X2 GeForce 256 DDR - Sound Blaster AWE 32- Alcatel 1000 ADSL - Dual boot WIN2K Pro 2195 and Win 98

[DosFreak 2]

I thought 2183 was RC2....or is my memory going? I bet that is what solved it.

[FrogMaster 0]

Yes, It was RC3. Very little difference with final I've been told.

Previous clean installs did not eliminate the symptom. A lot of people with final have the problem anyway.

I am more and more convinced that this is a resource issue. From the origin 20 years ago, the PC hardware design is irq driven and the memory lay-out very complicated.

Modern OSses put too much strain on it.

[mr_yellow 0]

When you had RC3 installed, was it with Multiprocessor ACPI support? I too have sticky keys problem and have narrowed it down to when I flashed my bios from nj to qq AND clean installed with multiproc ACPI support(I did both in relatively short time). I'm thinking if I go back to NJ, the ACPI support will freak on me so I'm just sticking it out...

 

I wonder how that new RU bp6 bios is..

 

But I'm running out and buying a USB mouse today so I won't have this problem anymore! yay.. dumb ps/2..

 

mr_yellow

 

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Win2k build 2195, ACPI enabled.

Celeron 366@550 on BP6 w/QQ, Xentor32 TNT2U(3.81), SB Live!(Liveware2k), IDE1=6G quantum(ata33), IDE2=CDROM, IDE3=13G quantum(ata66), Dualboot with win98.

[FrogMaster 0]

When I was with RC3, I installed first without ACPI then with. It seems there was no particular incidence on the sticky key prob.

 

This fresh gold install is standard multiprocessor.

Irq 9 is not cannibalized by ACPI and my video card sits alone and quietly on Irq 3 (freed from Com2). ATA66 controller is happy with the freed Irq 9.

As for this RU beta bios, I'll flash it tonight and see what happens. I'm not faint-hearted when I tweak

[APV_SAV 0]

Frog Master, if you have a geforce and Promise fasttrack 66 don't flash to RU, otherwise either your promise fasttrack will disappear or your geforce driver won't load.

[FrogMaster 0]

Thanks APV_SAV

Fortunately I did not flash yet because I was busy with testing 5.16 and DX8 beta.

[ThC 129 0]

the only times i had the sticky key prob was with RC3 once i clean installed and put on the final it was fine