ACPI under Win2k

[SeanR561 0]

Hi,

 

I have a AX59 Pro Super7 motherboard with the latest bios revision, the processor is an AMD K6-2 350. I'm trying to get ACPI to work under Win2k. I had no luck under Windows 98, but the bios shows ACPI enabled and that the IRQ is 9. This does not show up, however. Does someone know how to enable ACPI, even if it has to be done manually?

 

-SeanR561

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I dont recommend trying to enable ACPI manually because you can greatly screwup your computer

[SeanR561 0]

That is a risk I am willing to take. What I mean with that is that every "wrong" action in history has actually become a standard for today. Without any risks we would be like..... dogs chasing are tails all the time.

 

So if anyone knows a way how to enable it manually please tell me!

 

~SeanR561

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Don't any one tell SeanR561 on how to do it...

SeanR561 enabled ACPI is high not recommend

if you do enabled ACPI on non-ACPI hardware you may as well kiss OS or those bios goodby & that 99.7% it will happing.

[nova 0]

I have a similar problem with my Sony VAIO notebook, which seems to have a BIOS which is only partially ACPI compliant. I had Win98 running in ACPI mode on it before (and it ran FINE). Now I have Win2k installed on it, but in APM mode.

 

I tried to install Win2k Adv Srv on it, but this one does not support APM features, so I tried to manually choose ACPI mode during installation (when it says "press F6 to add SCSI drivers, press F5, then select the desired HAL in the menu that is displayed shortly after). It did not work, it just gave me a blue screen telling me that my BIOS would not be ACPI compliant (although I selected ACPI *by hand*!?!).

 

The next thing I'm going to try is starting an Win2k Adv Srv installation on my desktop system, which is ACPI compliant (Asus P2B, BIOS 1011), and then copy the unfinished installation over to the notebook, then I think it will have no other choice than continuing the installation in ACPI mode. Then I'll see whether it works...

 

You might try this method, too, but be careful not to mess up your system...

 

nova.

[SeanR561 0]

Nova, I will try what you did on my system. See if something is going to work. Its really weird though. The bios says its ACPI complaint and even gives it its own IRQ. Could something be wrong with my IRQ settings?

 

Also in the Standard PC properties in the Device Manager it says that it can't load up the IRQ table and that IRQ routing is disabled, while the checkmarks are still enabled. I think this could be the problem.

 

~SeanR561

 

[This message has been edited by SeanR561 (edited 17 January 2000).]

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It is Bios related, ask you motherboard manufacture to released a real acpi bios.