Могу посоветовать поставить на ноут Жены
, если она не против, еще одну систему... При загрузке выбирать или свою или ее. Я так с женой договорился.
Насчет дропов и затыканий.
Вот может поможет.
Это с форума пресонуса. Я так свой ноутбук настроил по этим советам.
There are essentially 3 ways to alter IRQs: (All are based on luck, unfortunately.)
1. Fully update your GPU & FW drivers as well as your BIOS.
2. Move the devices in question (not plausible on a laptop) or replace them (If you chose to replace your FireWire ports with a PCI / PCMCIA expansion card, we recommend using one with only FireWire 400 ports and a Texas Instruments or VIA chipset).
3. Disable any extraneous devices (com & parallel ports, SCSI, raid & SATA controllers, floppy drives, empty IDE channels, wireless network, even ACPI.)
Check out this Windows XP Optimization Guide for assistance with step 3, which is usually the most helpful step.
I come from the SoS's forum and I bring a list of things wich can cause dropouts:
* Network adapters: LAN, Wifi and Modems
* Onboard soundcars
* Remove your wireless keyboard/mouse
* SATA Hard Discs (Back his driver to IDE mode, on device manager and your BIOS) and AHCI device
* Update your BIOS version
* Update your GPU card drivers and down the aceleration of the card, on the option avaiables, change quality for perfomance
* Disable your DVD/CD drive
* Disbale ACPI MAnager device
* And always DON'T USE VISTA