BluewookieJim

Hi all. I've been searching the forums here and didn't find anything that quite matched what I'm experiencing. I have an Asus P2B motherboard, Rev. 1.04, running the 1014 beta 003 Bios. The error I am getting is a blue screen, that reads something along these lines... "ACPI Bios not fully compatible with ACPI specifications..." I've had a dual boot setup on this machine for ages (win98/win 2000) on separate hard drives. Recently something happened that I am no longer able to boot normally into Win2000. I've been running these BIOS for at least 4 months. The first time I noticed this was earlier this week. I was able to boot using "last known good" and got back in, I saw something quickly install (like found new hardware dialog) and have not been able to get in since. I was able to get in through safe mode, but no matter what I changed I couldn't boot normally. I tried reinstalling, but I hit the same error early on in the GUI part of the install. Any help would be appreciated.

Quote: Hi! i had the same problem. I found this page, but atm i don't know if can really help... anyway you can try http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/dsss/docs/w2kprob.shtml#P5 Good Luck! Bye! Ste' Thanks, I've seen that advice before, but the problem I'm having is I don't see the "F6" prompt. I've watched the installation closely, and I just don't see that part.

It's not a virus. before I decided to reinstall I was able to boot into safe mode with networking under windows 2003, it was just right before the Ctrl-Alt-Del in normal mode that it would blue screen. When I tried reinstalling last night, a new installation on a fresh partition, I got into the graphical part of the installation, but before any of the 'choose your options' stuff came up is where it blue screened, probably while detecting the hardware/bios. I've read elsewhere about pressing F7 when the text mode of the installation is showing the "Press F6 for scsi controllers" part, but I have not seen it hit that part of the install.