[JohnWill]

Originally posted by Swiper:
By the way, to change from IRQ shared ( ACPI )to IRQ seperated all you need to do is go to device manager, under computer where it says ACPI computer, you need to update this driver and change it to STANDARD PC and reboot. This will force XP to reassign IRQ seperately for each device.

I suspect you haven't tried this. If you turn off ACPI and reboot, you'll discover that you can't boot anymore! You can run a repair and change from the ACPI HAL to the standard HAL, but NOT the other way. Since the ACPI HAL is more desirable, I'd suggest not taking this route...

[Swiper]

I have done this lots of times.

changing from ACPI PC to Standard PC has worked for me everytime. when it boots up, it will redetect all hardware ( in the same/similar ) fashion as 9x/ME would.

Going from Standard PC to ACPI PC has never worked for me though.

[beatlejuice9]

I've been trying to figure out a problem for the last year, and only recently have I got a clue where the problem is starting from. My parents bought a very new fast pc last year, and I installed XP on it. Occasionally the system would freeze up, and the people at the store I bought it at treated me like a newbie explaining that computers sometimes freeze. I had to set them straight and let them know that I am a developer, and I know what I'm doing, but this freezing was unacceptable. I was able to always re-produce the problem by playing Unreal Tournament, but other Graphic intensive games didn't always freeze. The System Process would go to 99% and not let any other processes work whenever this freeze happened. I brought in the pc to where I bought it thinking it was a hardware issue. They were unable to reproduce the problem, and so told me they had done everything they could. I eventually tried just unplugging different devices seeing if that would get it to stop freezing. I eventually saw why they didn't have any problems, they were not plugging in any USB devices when they did the testing. I found this thread by looking for a device driver to replace my current driver "Sis 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller", and thought I might suggest, unplug all USB devices then try to play the games. If it doesn't crash, then you have the same problem as me, and at least I'm not alone. Hopefully someone else reading this knows of the way to fix this problem without running the pc with no USB devices. My parents would like to hook there printer back up full time, instead of just plugging it in when they need it. Any help anyone can give to this would be most appreciated.

[wullie1974]

@ beatlejuice9. the sis 7001 usb chipset does not work properly on xp. you might want to go here and try this patch for it. http://www.usbman.com/winxpusbguide.htm#SiS

i also have the sis 7001 chipset and had masive problem with an mp3 player.

good luck anyway !!!!!