Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:49:34 10/11/02
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Hi, and thanks to all who offered assistance! I tried a good dozen other things, including moving cards around to/from various slots, manually assigning IRQs via the BIOS, deleting the PCI bus from Device Manager, and much more that I don't want to remember... None of it worked. In the end, I had to re-install Windows XP. I had been running my system as a "Standard PC" rather than as an ACPI system. The re-install was as ACPI. From many things I've read on at enthusiast sites on the 'net, using ACPI involves some pretty major compromises. Many, many devices now share a single interrupt. It seems to work, BUT: 1) Benchmarks show a slowdown. For example, the 100 Base-TX network is slower than when it had its own IRQ. The RAID controller may also be slower than before. 2) The sound quality from the sound card can be adversely affected by traffic on the other devices that now share that IRQ (the Ethernet, the 4 USB ports, the RAID controller). 3) I had to reinstall drivers for nearly every piece of hardware. Several attached devices (mouse, keyboard, hard drives) are still listed in a more generic form in Device Manager, but they still work OK. It thinks my laser printer is an Unknown USB device but I can still print. Thanks again! -Roy. On October 09, 2002 at 09:27:43, Roy Eassa wrote: >Off topic, but I really need assistance: > >Microsoft tech support has been trying unsuccessfully for 3+ weeks to solve a >seemingly simple problem on my WinXP Pro system. I bet somebody here has >insight that Microsoft lacks. > >Simply put, every time I reboot I must install video drivers. > >It's an Athlon system with a GeForce2 MX400 card and 1 GB RAM. It worked fine >for nearly 1.5 years before the problem suddenly appeared. > >After each reboot, Device Manager shows a problem with the video card. There is >only a generic VGA driver with 60 Hz refresh. Loading any compatible driver >(Microsoft's, nVidia's, Asus's...) solves the problem until the next reboot, >when the same issue occurs. > >Microsoft can't figure it out. It's hard to formulate a useful search via >Google for this issue -- I've found cures for similar-sounding issues but they >don't work for this seemingly unique problem. > >Any ideas? > >Thanks in advance!! > > -Roy.
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