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Busby · Post by **Busby** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:53 pm

Well you have 2 options.

One is a reinstall. Downsides to that are that you have to reinstall everything and stuff. If you do this, when 2k/XP setup starts it asks to press F6 for SCSI drivers, at that time press F5 and F7. One of the two lets you choose, I don't remember which one and I always do both anyways. Select Standard PC and continue reinstalling.

Two is to right click where it says ACPI Uniprocessor PC and goto Properties then Driver and Update the drive and display a list and choose Standard PC. When you reboot it will have to find ALL your devices again so you'll have to reinstall <b>all</b> of your drivers.

blade · Post by **blade** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:34 pm

It could be a voltage problem. You might try upping the voltage on the cpu some to see if that helps.

I was getting some bad stutter in ie bookmarks and when I increased the cpu voltage, it stopped.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 6:42 pm

"Two is to right click where it says ACPI Uniprocessor PC and goto Properties then Driver and Update the drive and display a list and choose Standard PC. When you reboot it will have to find ALL your devices again so you'll have to reinstall all of your drivers."

This MAY help if it's an IRQ channel sharing problem (shouldn't be with all on-board hardware though), but shouldn't be necessary.

Also without ACPI you'll probably have to manually power off the PC with the power switch and power saver features may not work.

Let's try some less extreme suggestions:

This is almost certainly a driver or IRQ issue.

- Have you pulled ALL your cards except the video card yet? If not, do so. The MX300 is not known for IRQ issues but you never know. If that cures the problem then install each card ONE BY ONE. If the problem recurs, move the card to another slot.

- I assume this is Windows XP? Make sure to install Service Pack 1 and all the compatibility updates. Don't worry about security updates.

- Try moving the mouse to another port (if it's on a PS/2 try USB, if on USB then try PS/2).

- Do you have another video card you can temporarily install for testing? You might have a bad vid card.

- Have you tested your memory? Use DocMemory tester: http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3001-2094-1534814.html

- I know you said you installed all the latest drivers, but are you SURE? XP has a nasty habit of installing it's own generic drivers preferencially. I would specifically force the install of the latest drivers for your sound and video hardware. For the video card you should download the latest drivers from NVidia's website.

- DO NOT install any drivers for the mouse - if you have uninstall them. XP's native drivers is all you need unless you have extra buttons, and often those mouse utilities cause problems.

Hope this helps...

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 8:08 pm

FP: I have never had that power problem of turning it off with the switch. I do have to check "Enable Advanced Power Management" in the Power properties but that's it. And, on my current install and such, I can send my comp to hibernate but can't send it to Standby.

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 8:09 pm

i had a stutter problem on a few older pc's when playing movies and that was solved by enabling DMA on the drive playing it. strange if you are getting it ALL the time. i haven't read this whole thread...but in case it wasn't mentioned...could be: your AGP apeture size, motherboard chipset drivers (update them if you are using the default windows drivers), video card drivers (update/reinstall), etc.

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ji1831 · Post by **ji1831** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 2:47 am

ive never had a problem this stubborn before.... and i still havent resolved it.....ive tried everything........ everything written in here too....... crazy ass problem....not the sound or the vid cards.... or pci irqs..... or the voltage or the ACPI or the IDE..... damn.... someone else??

ji1831 · Post by **ji1831** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 4:30 am

anyone else got any suggestions?? maybe my mobo is bad...

sethpa · Post by **sethpa** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 8:42 am

When you installed the Nforce mobo drivers, which ones did you use? I've tried all the later ones since 2.03 and they all caused this crap. And don't use the Nforce SW IDE driver! MS will install it's own and it works fine. I just finished an evening of fun reinstalling everything due to trying out the latest 2.45 drivers from Nvidia and it got worse with the game stuttering crap! I really liked this mobo till I started running into all this stuff.........

VIA is starting to look good again!

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 8:53 am

I use the Nforce2 2.03 drivers and they work fine for me. Rock stable.

sethpa · Post by **sethpa** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 10:34 am

Seems like the only ones that do work FP, are the 2.03's, on my rig anyway.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 12:23 pm

Didn't know there were any newer ones out.

I'm tempted to just install the newer audio drivers to see if they fixed the mixer. My mobo sends the PC-speaker audio through the sound card. There's no way to turn it off (known issue with NForce2 audio drivers).

I have an app that beeps the speaker as a reminder and if I'm wearing headphones at the time it's pure agony.

There's a mention in the description of th 2.45 drivers that there's an "Updated audio control panel". Hopefully that means they've put a volume control for the PC speaker in the mixer.

sethpa · Post by **sethpa** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 12:51 pm

hmmm, never noticed that problem before???