IRQ hell and dvd dilemma

Okay Im running W2K SP1 on Asus A7V Rev1. 02 bios 1004 on ata100 controller with Maxtor 20. 4 GB ATA100 HDD,384MB PC133 SDRAM, Toshiba 12x DVD, Samsung 48x CD, Iomega external zip100 and Zip650 CDrw both usb a scanner, Duron 600MHz, network card, firewire card,Guillemot Maxi sound Fortissimo sound card, Voodoo 4 45 ...

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Okay Im running W2K SP1 on Asus A7V Rev1.02 bios 1004 on ata100 controller with Maxtor 20.4 GB ATA100 HDD,384MB PC133 SDRAM, Toshiba 12x DVD, Samsung 48x CD, Iomega external zip100 and Zip650 CDrw both usb a scanner, Duron 600MHz, network card, firewire card,Guillemot Maxi sound Fortissimo sound card, Voodoo 4 4500 AGP.
 
I think both these two problems im having go hand in hand.
I have 8 or 9 devices using IRQ 9, but even with bios PnP diabled i cant change the IRQ's.
Also when I play DVDs the sound skips for a couple of seconds. No scratches on dvds, cleaned out drive with cleaning disc, still bad. If i dont reboot and put a cd or cd-rom in gives me blue screen with "thread not found"
What is this crap. I didn't have this problem before in Win98.

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Windows 200 by default uses ACPI so many resources are allocated to the same IRQ.
 
Go to System properties, Hardware, Device Manager, Computer and change driver for Standard PC.

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Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, when i booted up, my system decided i didn't have a mouse or keyboard So I had to reload.

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yep... changing to/from acpi requires a reinstall

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I'm afraid this is true, re-installnig is the only way to remove ACPI, (press F6 repeatedly before it starts copying files gpreparing for the install <-- not 100% sure) when installing win2k
this solved many problems, though i actually think its decreased performance (3d) tho when i dont use ACPI i am able to go into suspend mode
always a good thing

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Well I think I fixed all my problems with reinstall. DVD playback fine, maybe cause i used WinDVD instead of PowerDVD. That was probably the cause of the blue screen and bad playback from the DVD. I know ive got a voodoo 4 but i like the late 3dfx's products--so sue me.