BIOS setup values can be important.
For instance, on old APM machines, switching off power management in BIOS setup causes ALL kinds of software to consider the machine
as non-APM.
Max
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From: “Konstantin Manurin”
To: “NT Developers Interest List”
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:15 PM
Subject: [ntdev] [NTDEV]: ACPI support problem
> Hi all,
>
>
> Me and my boss both have almost identical computers: same
> motherboards, same chipsets, same floppies and hard-drives, same
> memory DIMMs but slightly different size (128 and 192 MB), same
> keyboards and mice, but I have a CD-ROM and my boss have a DVD-ROM.
> The latter is the only difference. But my boss have Windows 2k with
> ACPI enabled, and I don’t. I forgot to say that we have same BIOSes.
> Can anybody give me a clue??? Why can’t I enable ACPI support on my
> machine??? I forcedly changed Standard PC to PC with ACPI support in
> Windows 2k Device Manager, but after reboot I received a BSOD with
> error code ACPI_BIOS_ERROR (0x000000A5)… Strange, but in Windows 98
> my computer supports an ACPI stuff and passes ACPI Hardware
> Compatibility Tests.
>
> All recommendations will be highly appreciated :))
>
>
> –
> Thanks beforehand,
> Konstantin Manurin (aka NizeG) xxxxx@infpres.com
> xxxxx@beep.ru
> xxxxx@yandex.ru
>
>
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