First post, by Unregistered
A week ago I made a fresh build of win2k professional. I put up VDMS for the purposes of running Megazeux, which a friend of mine said worked fine on his system. I hoped to not have to run into the direct I/O problem, but I did. I searched for the file that was listed as normally the culprit, giveio.sys. Nothing. I pondered for a bit and realized that I knew every single thing that I'd installed since bringing the system up. Xircon, winzip, winamp, and AIM, all of which are ruled out as causing it since my friend also runs those with no VDMS issues. AD-AWARE 6 and AVG 6, both of which I ruled out because I uninstalled them, restarted, and still had the problems. Since reinstalled. Gunbound and my motherboard CD are the only other things I installed onto my system. Since this is a known issue, I don't think you need to worry about hardware profiling, but here's some stuff that may be important. My main NIC, sound, and video are all onboard on my motherboard. I installed SiS630_730 vers 2.03 to take care of all that stuff. I think that's all of it. If anybody can illuminate a specific .sys other than giveio(which I don't have) which could be causing this, or a program that I should uninstall to get it working, it'd be vastly appreciated.
