I have a Win2K installation that performs a restart instead of a shutdown
when a shutdown is requested. I hooked the debugger up to this system and
found nothing wrong (no BSOD). I then decided to run a checked version of
the HAL and Kernel against this system to see if anything would show up in
the debugger. The following line occurs in the debugger right before the
symbols are unloaded by the system.
“PnpBios: Bios API call failed. Returned Code = 8d”
The system I am running on is not a ACPI machine. The device manager states
that the system is a Standard PC. Does anyone know what this error message
from the kernel means?
Thanks In Advance,
Joe