Re: [NTDEV]: ACPI support problem

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

----- Original Message -----
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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