In XP is it better to set ACPI to On or use Standard PC?

[pr-man 1]

Also what about "PNP OS" in the bios

[DosFreak 2]

Depends on the motherboard bios and the hardware involved. Generally if the hardware is unknown then Non-ACPI is best. That's the experience that I have had anyway. Less problems encountered.

 

PNP OS has no effect on windows NT/2000/XP.

[pr-man 1]

I have an Epox 8K7A

[Palos 0]

Man, never tried to set it to StandardPC (at bootup I assume, I forgot what's the F key to get there). Do you have probs in ACPI?

[BladeRunner 0]

If you search the Microsoft Knowledge Base on "PnP OS" in the BIOS under Windows 2000 you'll find a result telling you basically:

 

"MS Recommends PnP OS is set to 'No' for Windows 2000 installations"

 

I can only assume that as Win2k & WinXP share so much of the code/base that the same would be true under both OS's.