Snap, Crackle and pop with Pulsar II

borg · Post by **borg** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 9:53 am

in this thread he got really nervous, but jupiter brought back the sun to his lovely island:

http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... forum=1&24

Rob van Berkel · Post by **Rob van Berkel** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 3:13 pm

Promised to get back on the ACPI issue.
Doing as I described earlier in this thread does not remove ACPI. In fact it does nothing. Booting in safe mode and then removing the system/acpi devices in de dev.mgr. renders your win98se useless on the next reboot. After ghosting back my C: drive it is as nothing happened.
You must have a BIOS in which ACPI can be disabled in order to let procedure work.

Rob

dbmac · Post by **dbmac** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 6:01 pm

If you need to remove ACPI from a win98SE installation, reinstall Win98 from a DOS boot, cd to the installation directory and type:
setup.exe /p.i.

This will reinstall Win98 without ACPI. You'll still have all your previous applications, but you'll need to clean up Windows (internet clutter etc.) and reapply the usual tweaks (vcache, virtual memory, disable write-behind etc.)

/dave

emenelton · Post by **emenelton** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 6:54 pm

dbmac
do you use usb with w98se
thank-you

Rob van Berkel · Post by **Rob van Berkel** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 11:47 pm

to dbmac: did you actually try this?
The setup /p i (no periods in the command line) prevents windows from detecting PnP bios at all. What happens to all PnP-devices?
If you tried this, did it make any difference?

Rob

[ This Message was edited by: rvberkel on 2002-03-20 23:48 ]

dbmac · Post by **dbmac** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 6:45 am

I've used the /p.i. switch many times for running Win98 setup without ACPI. If I don't use the switch, 98 will setup with all the ACPI IRQ devices (as displayed in Device Manager/System Devices). With /p.i. in the command line (including .periods), no ACPI anywhere. You can also employ this when using 98Lite to install Win98; same command line but in the 98Lite setup directory.

Regarding PnP, I always disable this in BIOS - I prefer to let BIOS manage PCI resources, so I can't say if it's effected - but the command line switch I use is /p.i.

Emenelton - I have 1 USB port enabled, and 1 disabled with Win98 device manager, so USB only uses 1 IRQ (4).

/dave

darolek · Post by **darolek** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 10:17 am

On 2002-03-21 06:45, dbmac wrote:
I've used the /p.i. switch many times for running Win98 setup without ACPI.

Hi dbmac !
I just tried your tip but reinstall process going with errors.
Would you describe in details what are you doing in next steps after the second boot ?
p.s.
Had you that error after the first boot ?
"Wrong parameter when to recall API recognizing manager"

[ This Message was edited by: darolek on 2002-03-21 10:19 ]

dbmac · Post by **dbmac** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 12:33 pm

Hi darolek. I remember some sort of message like that when installing win98, I just clicked "OK" and proceeded with the installation. Does your install abort at this stage, or can you continue?
/db

Rob van Berkel · Post by **Rob van Berkel** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 1:24 pm

I just managed to get rid of ACPI on a running win98se:

set the ACPIOtion in the registry (see somewhere in this thread)
boot in safe mode, start regedit, delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Enum tree
have all you installmedia ready
reboot. Go to Add Hardware and add the system device PnP Bios (Failsafe)
WIN will then reinstall all other devices. It's a good idea (on Intel) to additionally load the inf-installer and the iaa.

Be sure to have a ghost image - it helped me a few times trying this

Rob

emenelton · Post by **emenelton** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 8:01 pm

so is mgranger going to get rid of his clicks?

eliam · Post by **eliam** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 10:44 pm

That's a point!!!

darolek · Post by **darolek** » Sat Mar 23, 2002 7:58 am

Hi rvberkel !
Your TIP works very well. It's result of "tweak":

Thanks !

mgranger · Post by **mgranger** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 3:23 am

I have got rid of the clicks!!

I basically did all of the tweaks that I have found on this forum, and a couple that the creamware help.pdf suggests and now I'm there!

I tested recording 16 tracks of 16bit audio @ 44.1 (ASIO2) and it worked fine - for the 5 minute recording that I did.

I then played back 32 tracks for 5 mins - all fine. Both my SCSI drive and my IDE drive handled this fine.

This was all running at 3ms ULLI setting.

I just need to do the masterverb test now, which I have a feeling will be cool.

I have now Done a drive image of this config so that I can always get back to a rockin' system.

I'd just like to take this chance to say a big thankyou to all of you guys (and gals) out there that helped me out. In particular Subhuman and Sandrob who, in my books are true living breathing fire-eating pulsarians.

Thanx guys!

_________________
martin granger
squash music

[ This Message was edited by: mgranger on 2002-03-25 03:27 ]