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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: comet on April 02, 2007, 05:36:59 PM

Title: acpi vs standard pc
Post by: comet on April 02, 2007, 05:36:59 PM
Hi,
  could someone please explain the diferance between acpi and standard pc mode,
and how that relates to running mach3?
    cheers
     Tony
Title: Re: acpi vs standard pc
Post by: Hood on April 02, 2007, 05:57:11 PM
This is what I understand it to be
ACPI basically means windows shares IRQs for hardware and manages them when nesescary, usually this is ok but occasionally it can cause problems, it is I think dependant on motherboard design. Standard PC you can assign the IRQs manually.
Hood
Title: Re: acpi vs standard pc
Post by: jinghamjr on April 02, 2007, 10:08:12 PM
Has anyone tried the REALTIME function available in Task Manager??  I stumbled across the function by right clicking on Mach3 in the Process Manager and a drop down appears where you can set the priority to Realtime.  You also get a message indicating some bad things can happen.  BUT, if this stops MS from interrupting Mach3 's functions during a prolonged run .........
JWI
Title: Re: acpi vs standard pc
Post by: comet on April 04, 2007, 04:27:36 PM
Thats interesting the realtime thing,I just tried it and I'm sure I got a cleaner driver test.
prehaps you should post that as a question to get a better response.
   Tony
Title: Re: acpi vs standard pc
Post by: Chaoticone on April 04, 2007, 04:36:24 PM
Thanks Comet,
     Any test you guys can do and report on would be great. That is what makes this forum so great. Lots of people sharing what they have learned. ;D

Brett
Title: Re: acpi vs standard pc
Post by: patrick71100 on April 08, 2007, 10:29:37 PM
I AM A GAMER AND IF YOU DONT USE STANDARD PC DRIVER FOR PROC, INTERRUPTS
VIDEO CARD PIPELINE AND COMP, WONT RUN GAMES WORTH A DARN