What is ACPI-bus?

[Nostradamus]

I have a Asus Cuv4x motherboard. This ACPI-bus thing is stealing irq´s from me. What is it and what is it good for?
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[Eelad]

What operating system are you using? It is my understanding that &quot;ACPI&quot; stands for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface technology, used in Win2000. It's purpose is to place PnP and Power Management under complete control of the operating system.
Hopes this helps a little.

 

[Nostradamus]

I´ve got win98. I think this is a feature of the motherboard. Perhaps something that takes over the handling of irq´s cause I can´t change any irq of any device.

I thought that perhaps it had something to do with via 4i1 drivers (&quot;irq routing port&quot but I´ve installed and uninstalled that several times.

I installed Windows ME last night and the irq I wanted was freed. I haven´t looked in device manager to see if acpi-bus is there or not, but I will as soon as I get home.

Nostradamus