Win XP: BIOS disabling or Device Manager disabling ??

[mandal]

Microsoft Windows XP Professional:

When you want to disable networks....
1) Should I disable everything in bios under the "Network" configuration page....
2) Should I disable everything in MyComputer - Device Manager - Network adapters...

Is there any difference in BIOS disabling or Device Manager disabling regarding CPU interrupt ??



wikipedia


The operating system held off interrupts for too long. If this occurs often, try increase the
"H/W Buffer Size" in the
Playback Engine Dialog.
(-9093)

Audio processing is conflicting with other CPU tasks. If this occurs often, reducing the "H/W Buffer Size" in the
Playback Engine Dialog may help prevent the problem. (-9129)

[sunburst79]

Microsoft Windows XP Professional:

When you want to disable networks....
1) Should I disable everything in bios under the "Network" configuration page....

Well if you Never use the network port on the computer than thats the best way. For all practical purposes the network port ceases to exsist as far as the computer is concerned and there should be no interupt issues at either the hardware or operating system level. If you aren't tied to a network this is the easiest and best way of doing things.

2) Should I disable everything in MyComputer - Device Manager - Network adapters...

If you disable it in BIOS it will dissapear from Device Manager since the computer can no longer "See" it. If you do use the computer to connect to the internet or a network once and a while this is where you want to disable the network adapter. Simply right click it and select "Disable" and the asscociated icon should dissapear from the task bar and the network connections properties page. You can re-enable the network port at any time by right clicking it in Device Manager and selecting "Enable".

A slighly better way of doing this on multipurpose computers (And one that works just as well with wireless network adapters) is to rightclick the network adapter in the "Network Connections" window and select "Create Shortcut" this will put a shortcut on the desktop that can then be drug onto the task bar and will remain there regardless of wether or not the network adapter is active or not. This saves a lot of drilling through the system to disable/enable the adapter.

Is there any difference in BIOS disabling or Device Manager disabling regarding CPU interrupt ??



wikipedia

I can't help there.... its WAY to early to be reading a Wiki article on harware interupts Suffice to say that disabling it in the software manager is fine as far as PT is concerned. BIOS would be better if you never use it.

Hope that helps

[mandal]

Another Win XP question...

MyComputer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Performance settings...

On the "Advanced" screen in section "Virtual memory" press "Change" button

Should every Drive have a Paging File Size or is it only the system drive C:\ that need a Paging File Size ?

(I can see that I have no Paging File Size for my external maxtor E:\ drive)

[sunburst79]

Another Win XP question...

MyComputer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Performance settings...

On the "Advanced" screen in section "Virtual memory" press "Change" button

Should every Drive have a Paging File Size or is it only the system drive C:\ that need a Paging File Size ?

(I can see that I have no Paging File Size for my external maxtor E:\ drive)

Opinions vary on this....But you only need one paging file. It should be located on your main system drive and should be twice the size of your installed RAM. E.G if you have 2 GB RAM that the Paging file sould be 4GB.

It supposedly frees up some resources to change the Page File from System Managed to Custom Sized. In the example above it would read Custom Size an have 2096 in the minimun size box and maximun size box would have 4092. I'M fairly sure that with todays processers/RAM quantitys that you can safely leave it at System Managed as long as you have 2GB or more of RAM. Your external drive/any other drives shouldn't need a paging file at all.

The argument can be made that the best place for the Paging file is on the outer edge of the fastest HDD in the computer. While thats true I don't think that Windows/PT is using the Page File any were near as much as it did in the "Good old days" and that keeping it simple has its advantages.

[mandal]

Thanx a lot sunburst79.

...ready for another Win XP performance issue

"Hardware plug-in" VS "Software plugin".

How will you compare a hardware plug-in, e.g a Lexicon reverb (S/PDIF) VS a PT LE plug-in D-Verb regarding performance and memory...?

Will there be a risk for ending up in even more IRQ problems connecting a Lexicon reverb via S/PDIF to my MBOX2 ?

(Hopefully I can perform better with an external reverb...?)

[Shan]

Which Lexicon Hardware verb? Dverb is a CPU pig and definitely not a "go to" verb plug-in. TL Space, IR-1, Oxverb Reverb, Breverb are some of the better ones to go for as far as software verbs go in my opinion.

Shane

[mandal]

...a general question.

[Shan]

The hardware verb wont use any CPU, ram or IRQ sharing from your rig. Plug-in verbs will vary on the amount of CPU usage.

Shane

[mandal]

Thanx Shan.

...but I guess there is some software in use (somewhere), even if you use external plug-ins...
The Win XP use software to communicate via S/PDIF....or ?

[Shan]

Thanx Shan.

...but I guess there is some software in use (somewhere), even if you use external plug-ins...
The Win XP use software to communicate via S/PDIF....or ?

The only software in use is the driver to your mbox.

Shane