> passed along to ABIT and the XP people as needed or do I need to explore
> other support avenues as well at this time?
>I have built a new system with a primary motivation of being able to setup
> more complex network scenarios in Virtual PC for testing and
> demonstration.
> The new system sports an ABIT AW8-MAX motherboard with a 3GHz Pentium D
> chip,
> 4GB RAM and a Matrox P650 dual monitor video card. The AW8-MAX board has
> a
> Realtek based High Def Audio daughter card. Multiple SATA2 hard drives in
> IDE mode (not RAID).
>
> With a base install of XPproSP2, the latest BIOS and hardware drivers, and
> only Virtual PCsp1 (all other applications ran fine but I did this base
> install after narrowing down the problem to accurately diagnose it). I
> was
> experiencing spontaneous system reboots only when attempting to run
> Virtual
> PCs of any guest operating system. After reading the thread "Virtual PC
> crash with New Gateway PC" I was encouraged to focus on the audio
> component
> and sure enough if I disable the Realtek High Def Audio device under
> Windows
> Device Manager and select no audio for the virtual PCs - ALL IS RIGHT WITH
> MY
> LITTLE COMPUTER WORLD (except no sound)! (And we all know from experience
> that it can all work together just fine like on my old P4 system with
> integrated AC97 sound.)
>
> So FYI to the community, I can validate a general Virtual PC conflict with
> new generation audio driver(s) as implicated by my experience related to
> the
> other thread but with different hardware.
>
> The question then is this a Virtual PC issue, a Windows XP issue, a select
> sound driver issue or combination of some sort?
>
> I am new to news group use so humor and help me as needed. Will this get
> passed along to ABIT and the XP people as needed or do I need to explore
> other support avenues as well at this time?
>
> I hope this info helps others and leads to help that gets my new system
> totally functional.
>
> --
> Small business consulting and enthusiast.

> > I am new to news group use so humor and help me as needed. Will this get
> > passed along to ABIT and the XP people as needed or do I need to explore
> > other support avenues as well at this time?
>
> Hi,
>
> This is purely a peer support forum, so nothing officially gets from here to
> any of the companies involved. That said, one of the Microsoft product
> managers does post quite a bit in this forum.
>
> Anyway, to get official support you'll have to call Microsoft PSS. For Abit
> whatever official support they have.
>
> My gut feeling is this is all a driver issue, so maybe backleveling or
> updating whatever sound drivers on your host might help. You might try
> Microsoft certified drivers for your sound card if they exist.
>
> --
> Bob Comer <Microsoft MVP - Virtual Machine>
>
>
>
> "Dr Mike" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
> >I have built a new system with a primary motivation of being able to setup
> > more complex network scenarios in Virtual PC for testing and
> > demonstration.
> > The new system sports an ABIT AW8-MAX motherboard with a 3GHz Pentium D
> > chip,
> > 4GB RAM and a Matrox P650 dual monitor video card. The AW8-MAX board has
> > a
> > Realtek based High Def Audio daughter card. Multiple SATA2 hard drives in
> > IDE mode (not RAID).
> >
> > With a base install of XPproSP2, the latest BIOS and hardware drivers, and
> > only Virtual PCsp1 (all other applications ran fine but I did this base
> > install after narrowing down the problem to accurately diagnose it). I
> > was
> > experiencing spontaneous system reboots only when attempting to run
> > Virtual
> > PCs of any guest operating system. After reading the thread "Virtual PC
> > crash with New Gateway PC" I was encouraged to focus on the audio
> > component
> > and sure enough if I disable the Realtek High Def Audio device under
> > Windows
> > Device Manager and select no audio for the virtual PCs - ALL IS RIGHT WITH
> > MY
> > LITTLE COMPUTER WORLD (except no sound)! (And we all know from experience
> > that it can all work together just fine like on my old P4 system with
> > integrated AC97 sound.)
> >
> > So FYI to the community, I can validate a general Virtual PC conflict with
> > new generation audio driver(s) as implicated by my experience related to
> > the
> > other thread but with different hardware.
> >
> > The question then is this a Virtual PC issue, a Windows XP issue, a select
> > sound driver issue or combination of some sort?
> >
> > I am new to news group use so humor and help me as needed. Will this get
> > passed along to ABIT and the XP people as needed or do I need to explore
> > other support avenues as well at this time?
> >
> > I hope this info helps others and leads to help that gets my new system
> > totally functional.
> >
> > --
> > Small business consulting and enthusiast.
>
>
>

> Further diagnostic testing reveals that the conflict culprit(s) are the audio
> driver applets that auto install and auto run with the driver install process
> and the user is given NO option to not install them. I managed to identify
> and disable them in the registry and I now have sound and system stability
> with the host and guest systems! Happy Computing!
> --
> Dr Mike
> Small business consulting and enthusiast.
>
>
> "Robert Comer" wrote:
>
> > > I am new to news group use so humor and help me as needed. Will this get
> > > passed along to ABIT and the XP people as needed or do I need to explore
> > > other support avenues as well at this time?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is purely a peer support forum, so nothing officially gets from here to
> > any of the companies involved. That said, one of the Microsoft product
> > managers does post quite a bit in this forum.
> >
> > Anyway, to get official support you'll have to call Microsoft PSS. For Abit
> > whatever official support they have.
> >
> > My gut feeling is this is all a driver issue, so maybe backleveling or
> > updating whatever sound drivers on your host might help. You might try
> > Microsoft certified drivers for your sound card if they exist.
> >
> > --
> > Bob Comer <Microsoft MVP - Virtual Machine>
> >
> >
> >
> > "Dr Mike" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> > news:(email address - cut out)...
> > >I have built a new system with a primary motivation of being able to setup
> > > more complex network scenarios in Virtual PC for testing and
> > > demonstration.
> > > The new system sports an ABIT AW8-MAX motherboard with a 3GHz Pentium D
> > > chip,
> > > 4GB RAM and a Matrox P650 dual monitor video card. The AW8-MAX board has
> > > a
> > > Realtek based High Def Audio daughter card. Multiple SATA2 hard drives in
> > > IDE mode (not RAID).
> > >
> > > With a base install of XPproSP2, the latest BIOS and hardware drivers, and
> > > only Virtual PCsp1 (all other applications ran fine but I did this base
> > > install after narrowing down the problem to accurately diagnose it). I
> > > was
> > > experiencing spontaneous system reboots only when attempting to run
> > > Virtual
> > > PCs of any guest operating system. After reading the thread "Virtual PC
> > > crash with New Gateway PC" I was encouraged to focus on the audio
> > > component
> > > and sure enough if I disable the Realtek High Def Audio device under
> > > Windows
> > > Device Manager and select no audio for the virtual PCs - ALL IS RIGHT WITH
> > > MY
> > > LITTLE COMPUTER WORLD (except no sound)! (And we all know from experience
> > > that it can all work together just fine like on my old P4 system with
> > > integrated AC97 sound.)
> > >
> > > So FYI to the community, I can validate a general Virtual PC conflict with
> > > new generation audio driver(s) as implicated by my experience related to
> > > the
> > > other thread but with different hardware.
> > >
> > > The question then is this a Virtual PC issue, a Windows XP issue, a select
> > > sound driver issue or combination of some sort?
> > >
> > > I am new to news group use so humor and help me as needed. Will this get
> > > passed along to ABIT and the XP people as needed or do I need to explore
> > > other support avenues as well at this time?
> > >
> > > I hope this info helps others and leads to help that gets my new system
> > > totally functional.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Small business consulting and enthusiast.
> >
> >
> >

> Further diagnostic testing reveals that the conflict culprit(s) are the
> audio
> driver applets that auto install and auto run with the driver install
> process
> and the user is given NO option to not install them. I managed to
> identify
> and disable them in the registry and I now have sound and system stability
> with the host and guest systems! Happy Computing!
> --
> Dr Mike
> Small business consulting and enthusiast.
>
>
> "Robert Comer" wrote:
>
>> > I am new to news group use so humor and help me as needed. Will this
>> > get
>> > passed along to ABIT and the XP people as needed or do I need to
>> > explore
>> > other support avenues as well at this time?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is purely a peer support forum, so nothing officially gets from here
>> to
>> any of the companies involved. That said, one of the Microsoft product
>> managers does post quite a bit in this forum.
>>
>> Anyway, to get official support you'll have to call Microsoft PSS. For
>> Abit
>> whatever official support they have.
>>
>> My gut feeling is this is all a driver issue, so maybe backleveling or
>> updating whatever sound drivers on your host might help. You might try
>> Microsoft certified drivers for your sound card if they exist.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer <Microsoft MVP - Virtual Machine>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Dr Mike" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
>> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> >I have built a new system with a primary motivation of being able to
>> >setup
>> > more complex network scenarios in Virtual PC for testing and
>> > demonstration.
>> > The new system sports an ABIT AW8-MAX motherboard with a 3GHz Pentium D
>> > chip,
>> > 4GB RAM and a Matrox P650 dual monitor video card. The AW8-MAX board
>> > has
>> > a
>> > Realtek based High Def Audio daughter card. Multiple SATA2 hard drives
>> > in
>> > IDE mode (not RAID).
>> >
>> > With a base install of XPproSP2, the latest BIOS and hardware drivers,
>> > and
>> > only Virtual PCsp1 (all other applications ran fine but I did this base
>> > install after narrowing down the problem to accurately diagnose it). I
>> > was
>> > experiencing spontaneous system reboots only when attempting to run
>> > Virtual
>> > PCs of any guest operating system. After reading the thread "Virtual
>> > PC
>> > crash with New Gateway PC" I was encouraged to focus on the audio
>> > component
>> > and sure enough if I disable the Realtek High Def Audio device under
>> > Windows
>> > Device Manager and select no audio for the virtual PCs - ALL IS RIGHT
>> > WITH
>> > MY
>> > LITTLE COMPUTER WORLD (except no sound)! (And we all know from
>> > experience
>> > that it can all work together just fine like on my old P4 system with
>> > integrated AC97 sound.)
>> >
>> > So FYI to the community, I can validate a general Virtual PC conflict
>> > with
>> > new generation audio driver(s) as implicated by my experience related
>> > to
>> > the
>> > other thread but with different hardware.
>> >
>> > The question then is this a Virtual PC issue, a Windows XP issue, a
>> > select
>> > sound driver issue or combination of some sort?
>> >
>> > I am new to news group use so humor and help me as needed. Will this
>> > get
>> > passed along to ABIT and the XP people as needed or do I need to
>> > explore
>> > other support avenues as well at this time?
>> >
>> > I hope this info helps others and leads to help that gets my new system
>> > totally functional.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Small business consulting and enthusiast.
>>
>>
>>