In Reply to: Re: New PC - USB devices run painfully SLOW!! posted by Jason on 02/26/02 at 4:18 AM:
: Check if ACPI is inbstalled by Windows, this could also cause an performance decrease.
: If you want to get rid of ACPI:
: There are two ways to prevent Win98SE/ME installing ACPI or disable ACPI:
: 1. Fresh install, use "setup /p i"
: 2. Tweak the registry of a running Win:
: In the Registry should under
: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Detect
: stand a DWORD by the name of ACPIOption, that contains the value 1.
: If not, create it.
: If you set the value to 2 and start the hardware-recognition, Windows should readjust, after the restart everything on APM and Plug&Play-bios and recognize all hardware again.
: BTW: Copy the Win98 cab files onto your harddrive. The hardware assistent needs to replace the ACPI bios driver with the P'n'P bios driver, so that all hardware could be recognized ( w/o bios driver no IDE controller and no CDR ;-)).
: Best way is of course N° 1, a clean install of Windows.
: Jason
Thank you for your advice but fortunately ACPI is not enabled.
