ajFranzman

Wow, that sounds dangerous... as in, after using F5 to set setup defaults I might then need to go in and make sure every single BIOS setting is back to the way it is now before the system will boot again. I'll try it, but I'll need to have a few hours to spare before I do, so it won't be right away.Maybe uninstalling and removing the modem will work. I'll try that first. I don't know about manually assigning IRQs. I think the system might have some shared IRQs. Can those be set manually too? What about the ones that the BIOS setup currently shows as "Reserved", what do I do with those? Sorry you lost a minute because of me. I should have taken a few days off and pass by your house. Instead I just read your post, searched the net for your motherboard's manual, went through it, searched the relevant items, and type a very short note about them. Lazy me. Sorry, Ponch, I didn't mean to sound ungrateful, and I suppose I should have provided links to my motherboard manual to start with. You're obviously quite knowledgeable and I do appreciate the help. It's just that another user given the same info might have complained about not being able to find that setting at all... sometimes we noobs need a lot of hand-holding.

Yes, in the BIOS "Boot" menu. Should it be set to "No" instead? In the BIOS "Advanced" menu, under the "PCI Configuration" submenu, "Resources controlled by" is set to "Auto". Is this the setting you're referring to? It took me a minute to find it because of the additional intervening menu layer that you didn't mention. This may be the most interesting (perhaps frustrating) item. Although clearly shown in the motherboard User Guide, this entry does not exist in my actual BIOS "Boot" menu screen! I have searched through the other BIOS setup menus as well as I could, in case it was moved between the printing of the User Guide and my BIOS revision (1009), but I was unable to find it.What do you suggest I do now?

I have a Windows XP Home 32-bit system, Upgrade SP2 CD install from Win98SE, then upgraded to XP SP3, and all other critical updates installed. The motherboard is an ASUS A7V400-MX, and I have installed all the latest drivers for motherboard hardware and the AGP video card (ATI Radeon 9700 Pro). There's also an Intel 537ep-based PCI modem. The driver/software CD for the modem says BVRP and Xmedia on it but I don't know if either of those companies is the actual maker of the modem; Intel supposedly only made chipsets and not complete modems. Whenever I try to make any changes to the parallel port in the BIOS, the system crashes to a BSOD at startup, with the following info: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (...blah blah blah...) STOP: 0x00000050 (0xFFFFFFE8, 0x00000001, 0x804D9044, 0x00000000) This even happens if I merely uninstall the parallel port in Device Manager, without making any BIOS changes. Happens if I uninstall in Device Manager, and set to "Disabled" in the BIOS... in short, no matter what BIOS settings I try for the port, whether I uninstall the port in Device Manager first or not, I can only get the system to boot again if I return the BIOS setting for the port to its present configuration (ECP mode) then hit F8 during boot to "Load last known good configuration". I have done some searching online and found that most info on 0x50 Stop Errors says it's probably bad RAM, but MemTest86+ finds no problems with my RAM. I am using MS Windows Security Essentials for virus protection and firewall. Please let me know if there's any other important info I forgot to mention. TIA for any help you can provide.

Have you tried to disable Clear Type with RPConfig (third tab, 2 bottom lines) to make the comparison?Several people had to do it because of such displaying errors. I'm sure that isn't necessary. After using the machine for two days with CTDIRSPP set to 0, it seems as if all of the position errors are avoided; only the usual uneven letter spacing remains (which would be the same or even worse without ClearType anyway).

(Yes I know that was an old post. I'm reporting something related that I haven't noticed anyone else mention yet.) Thank you Tihiy for making Revolutions Pack available, and for posting those registry settings! After installing RP9.7, I tried to install the ClearType Control Panel applet and... nothing! So those registry entries are apparently the only way I have to adjust ClearType behavior. When I initially installed RP9.7 the other day, I made some changes to the settings above right away (foremost was adjusting gamma to 128 to reduce color fringing -- it can go all the way up to 255 decimal, which is essentially no sub-pixel smoothing.) Later, I noticed that many programs would have position errors when entering, editing, and sometimes simply displaying long lines or even individual long words. The ends of words might be cut off at the end of a line, or the "I-beam" cursor might appear several pixels to the right of the actual text entry/edit position. Today I turned off sub-pixel positioning (returned CTDIRSPP value to 0), and most of the problems went away. However, lack of SPP means that often the tiny spacing between individual letters of words will appear uneven, where it had been very even with SPP enabled. I don't know if this problem is with ClearType generally, or if it only applies to the RP implementation of it, but obviously the software is not fully keeping track of character positions down to the sub-pixel level (perhaps rounding up any fractions at the end of words or characters?)