This does raise an interesting situation that I have experienced myself. I used to test motherboards with a copy of XP installed on a Corsair solid state drive. Since I was normally using the same CPU, it never asked to re-activate the license or if it did, it always suceeded.
So I probably loaded drivers from 10 different motherboards on this copy of XP. I figured, drivers only matter when the system sees a device that needs it, so I figured it didn't matter. Towards board number 7, however, DPCs went to 200 and stayed there no matter what I did. 3 different boards behaved exactly the same no matter what I did. At the time I figured those were just three boards that I wouldn't sell. I needed a small sql server for testing an application I was writing, so I took one of the boards, put a lower-powered cpu in it from another older computer, popped a fresh copy of XP and the system seemed a lot snappier with the slower processor than with my test SSD. I ran DPCLat on it and it was in the 90s. So just with a "clean" copy of XP it went from 200 to 90. Could latent devices installed from other motherboards really do this if not active? It truly could be any number of problems that the fresh install solved besides "driver hell" but just wondered if anyone else had this experience. 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Neal Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > Besides a possibly accurate synonym, the SOL driver is Serial Over Lan and > I would bet that could be a killer if your firewire card has an interrupt > anywhere near the ethernet controller! > > Who would put that kind of driver on a commercial motherboard disk? How > strange. > > Intel boards are stable but the least attractive components I have ever > seen. I am playing with their board in testing the i3 530 cpu and it has > features in the bios that sound like another language (which I don't speak). > I will start disabling things as I proceed with my tests. > > > 73 > Neal Campbell > Abroham Neal Software > www.abrohamnealsoftware.com > (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER > > Amateur Radio: K3NC > Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ > DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] > Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Peter G. Viscarola <[email protected]>wrote: > >> > >> > Intel PCI management driver >> > >> >> Is that an Intel mainboard? >> >> The Intel Motherboards have some hellacious BIOS-based stuff that can lead >> to incredibly strange behavior. Unless you're using it in a big corporate >> environment where you might want this stuff, I usually recommend against >> Intel motherboards. >> >> (BTW... I can't even BEGIN to guess at what those other things are. >> Strange indeed.) >> >> Peter >> K1PGV >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >> [email protected] >> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >> Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: >> http://www.flex-radio.com/ >> > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
