Hello Gregory,
Thursday, October 25, 2001, 6:02:47 PM, you wrote:
GGD> I would check the BIOS revision dates and/or the motherboard hardware
GGD> revision levels. There may be a difference there. If it is a BIOS
GGD> revision, you could probably obtain a BIOS update and flash the BIOS.
GGD> Which motherboard is this? Some motherboards are better than others. My
GGD> GigaByte 6BXD (Dual PIII) still does not run W2K exactly right even after 4
GGD> BIOS updates. There is still a problem in the USB support. Just an
GGD> example.
GGD> Greg
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GGD> [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com]On Behalf Of Konstantin Manurin
GGD> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 3:16 AM
GGD> To: NT Developers Interest List
GGD> Subject: [ntdev] [NTDEV]: ACPI support problem
GGD> Hi all,
GGD> Me and my boss both have almost identical computers: same
GGD> motherboards, same chipsets, same floppies and hard-drives, same
GGD> memory DIMMs but slightly different size (128 and 192 MB), same
GGD> keyboards and mice, but I have a CD-ROM and my boss have a DVD-ROM.
GGD> The latter is the only difference. But my boss have Windows 2k with
GGD> ACPI enabled, and I don’t. I forgot to say that we have same BIOSes.
GGD> Can anybody give me a clue??? Why can’t I enable ACPI support on my
GGD> machine??? I forcedly changed Standard PC to PC with ACPI support in
GGD> Windows 2k Device Manager, but after reboot I received a BSOD with
GGD> error code ACPI_BIOS_ERROR (0x000000A5)… Strange, but in Windows 98
GGD> my computer supports an ACPI stuff and passes ACPI Hardware
GGD> Compatibility Tests.
GGD> All recommendations will be highly appreciated :))
GGD> –
GGD> Thanks beforehand,
GGD> Konstantin Manurin (aka NizeG) xxxxx@infpres.com
GGD> xxxxx@beep.ru
GGD> xxxxx@yandex.ru
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My motherboard is Iwill VD133 (VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset) with P-III
533B installed.
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