Possible audio latency issues due to acpi.sys

Hello, I use Vista to run the digital DJ program, Traktor. While I've never had any latency issues before, they recently started cropping up and I ran LatencyMon to see where the problem could be. It appears that the problem may be the service, acpi.sys,
as it had the highest execution of 1.2, which is fairly high. I've tried using Process Explorer and entering into the BIOS to turn off acpi.sys, but wasn't able to. Is there really any way of disable this service?
Thank you.

Hi,
As this issue did not occur before, system restore can be under consideration.
To disable the feature, you can also go to Device Manager, expand System Devices.
This issue can occur due to hardware or software conflictions. Let us try the steps below to narrow down the cause of the issue. Please check if we can boot in Win7 normally:
Device Clean Boot
==============
In this situation, your system will only have the basic hardware devices and it should be more stable. If it is inconvenient to unplug the devices, we can disable them in Device Manager. Please refer to the following steps:
1. Click "Start", type "DEVMGMT.MSC" in the Search textbox and press Enter.
2. Expand "Sound, video and game controllers".
3. Right click on your Sound Card, select "Properties"
4. Click "Driver" tab, click Disable (Disable the selected device). Click OK
5. Please use the same method to disable other hardware such as: Modem, network card, CD-R drive. Please note some devices such as video adapter are not available to be disabled.
6. Please restart the computer. Can we boot in Windows Vista properly? If so, please continue prepare a clean boot to troubleshoot.
Clean Boot prevents software conflicts by preventing the startup items and non Microsoft services from loading. This way you can safely follow the process of elimination to check which application is causing this behavior.
Refer:
How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135
Note: Ensure that you put your computer back to normal startup mode after completing the troubleshooting steps. Steps are available in the article given above.
Regards,
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