Help with problem from changing to Standard-PC mode!

[zendin]

Hello,

I have a 2.4 gHz P4 (ASUS P4PE) that I use as a digital audio
workstation. Today, I upgraded the machine from Win2K Pro to XP Pro.
Things seemed to go fine until it came time to install my audio card,
an RME Multiface (high-priced card/breakout box designed especially
for digital audio). Installed the drivers and upon reboot got an
error. Resorted to last good known config and got back in.

I did some research on the RME site and noticed that in some cases IRQ
conflicts are encountered and they recommended several options.
Unfortunately, I failed to notice that these were for Win2K and NOT XP
until I had already tried 2 of them.

The first thing I did was the following (directly from the RME site):

Go to Device Manager (Control Panel/System/Hardware), click on
'Computer', then double click on 'ACPI-PC'. Go on with 'Driver' and
'Update Driver'. Select 'Display a list of the known drivers for this
device', then 'Show all hardware of this device class'. Now you can
select 'Standard-PC' in the list shown in the right window.


Of course the prompts were a little different in XP. After a reboot,
the computer once again errored instead of going into Windows. I
rebooted and went into my BIOS settings and disabled 'Plug-and-play
OS' at the bios level (this was one of the other recommendations).

Re-started and got the same problem, only now I can't even default to
the last known good configuration!!! I just spent a lot of the day
preparing for and completing this upgrade.....I really don't wanna
have to do it all over again. If someone has a solution that doesn't
involve re-installing XP, I'd LOVE to hear it!!!

TIA,
Mike

[Len]

Good Luck, sounds like you hosed the HAL that XP was using for the system
(not good)! The two thoughts that come to mind are:
1) If it will start in safe mode try doing a system restore - XP usually
creates a check point after it is initially installed and running.
2) Try doing an "inplace upgrade/maintenance reinstall" of XP. Basically
installing XP over the top of its self.

If neither of these will work?? Also if you choose the system restore make
sure you undo any changes made in CMOS. Should you need to use the 2nd
option have CMOS setup the way you want it as XP will create a new HAL based
on what it has to work with.

I have the same MB and installed both W2K and XP SP1 on it without issue.
However, mine was a clean install and with less HW. Both ACPI & APIC were
incorporated into the HAL along with Hyperthreading provided by the P4 2.4c
CPU. It may have been wiser to try moving your sound card to a different
PCI slot or switch some PCI cards around BEFORE changing an important
parameter such as ACPI

Good Luck,
Len

"zendin" > wrote in message
...
> Hello,
>
> I have a 2.4 gHz P4 (ASUS P4PE) that I use as a digital audio
> workstation. Today, I upgraded the machine from Win2K Pro to XP Pro.
> Things seemed to go fine until it came time to install my audio card,
> an RME Multiface (high-priced card/breakout box designed especially
> for digital audio). Installed the drivers and upon reboot got an
> error. Resorted to last good known config and got back in.
>
> I did some research on the RME site and noticed that in some cases IRQ
> conflicts are encountered and they recommended several options.
> Unfortunately, I failed to notice that these were for Win2K and NOT XP
> until I had already tried 2 of them.
>
> The first thing I did was the following (directly from the RME site):
>
> Go to Device Manager (Control Panel/System/Hardware), click on
> 'Computer', then double click on 'ACPI-PC'. Go on with 'Driver' and
> 'Update Driver'. Select 'Display a list of the known drivers for this
> device', then 'Show all hardware of this device class'. Now you can
> select 'Standard-PC' in the list shown in the right window.
>
>
> Of course the prompts were a little different in XP. After a reboot,
> the computer once again errored instead of going into Windows. I
> rebooted and went into my BIOS settings and disabled 'Plug-and-play
> OS' at the bios level (this was one of the other recommendations).
>
> Re-started and got the same problem, only now I can't even default to
> the last known good configuration!!! I just spent a lot of the day
> preparing for and completing this upgrade.....I really don't wanna
> have to do it all over again. If someone has a solution that doesn't
> involve re-installing XP, I'd LOVE to hear it!!!
>
> TIA,
> Mike
>
>