it also crashes when u OC in windows for some bizzar reason (if I overclock and start up hl, its fine, if I overclock and im like checking email/icq etc then it will crash!)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roachfood - the-coming.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 7:19 AM Subject: [hlcoders] OT - Pertains to coding in a way :\ > Sorry about the off topic but I found something out about my system tonight > that really pisses me off. Ive been having problems with my video and sound > card while running my mod on 2k, and I went to my sound card site to try and > figure out why. I go to the faq and the first thing on there is "Disable > ACPI". > > I dont know if some of you know about this (im sure you do) but ACPI is a > power saving thing that newer systems have and win2k and winxp default to if > its enabled on yer motherboard. Basically it assigns as many devices to 1 > IRQ that it can, and it can cause lockups and crashes. (I have 6 on IRQ 11) > I am fixing to have to reinstall win2k to get rid of it and dont want you > guys to go through the same thing. > > If you have win2k or XP go to device manager and double click on Computer > and if it says something like in wtf2.jpg then you have it enabled. It can > cause a lot of problems cause its really meant for servers and stuff, not > gaming machines. Again sorry for the off topic but I thought my mod was > crashing for ages cause it was incompatible with win2k even though it works > perfectly on 98. So check for this. It can be satan! SATAN! > > www.the-coming.com/wtf.jpg > www.the-coming.com/wtf2.jpg > > Roachie > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
