On an ACPI system, it appears that the sharing of IRQ's increases ISR latencies. This can usually be attributed to badly written drivers or shoddily designed hardware.<BR><BR>I'm going to be building ...

Today's computers represent a quantum leap in performance and complexity compared with the technology available only a few years ago. Nevertheless, a paramount goal of these late and future designs is ...

...installs as "Standard PC" only under Win 2k- thought that this Dell was ACPI compliant. IIRC all the ones at work are installed as ACPI.<BR><BR>Bad hardware? Should I return this to ...