Poops Brick - Decides Not To Reinstall - Non ACPI Mode
May 15, 2007
I accidentally formatted over my XP installation (should...have...used...gparted....not...partition...magic...) about a week ago. Fortunately I keep my files on a seperate partition. I put in the XP disk, and install as normal. Good, it reboots. XP logo shows for a split second, then..."Motherboard does not have ACPI support...blah blah blah http://hardware-update.com blah blah blah". Fine. Restart setup, in non ACPI mode. Reboot. Yay it works. Install videocard drivers, reboot. Now it just restarts after showing the XP logo for a split second. Damnit! Put in CD. Reinstall. Forgot to put on non-ACPI mode, get error again. Damnit. Restart install in non-ACPI mode....BAD_POOL bluescreen. Slam head on desk. Insert ubuntu cd. Install ubuntu. Go to techguy. Make post about XP install issues. Ask for help.
I'm going to a massive LAN party this weekend, and having XP would be nice, because I want to play Counter-strike, and not just UT and Doom. Thanks a bunch. Oh, hardware specs, right. AMD 4800+ 939, ASUS P5ND2 Platinum (or something) SLi, nVidia 7800 GTX, 1 GB 2-2-2-5 OCZ RAM, Antec NeoPower 480, 200 GB HDD, Linksys WMP54GS (stupid ubuntu not having ndiswrapper installed by default, stupid ndiswrapper refusing to install under ubuntu...), Creative xFi XtremeAudio.
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Nov 29, 2008
I uninstalled my ACPI windows driver! How can I reinstall it?
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Nov 7, 2006
I just opened this computer I got from tigerdirect.com and I was loading windows 2000 pro onto it...It loads half way and I get this message:
ACPI Bios not fully compliant with the ACPI specification.
So I did what I read and When Setup starts again, press F7 (not F6) when you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver" screen.
Windows automatically disables the installation of the ACPI HAL and installs the Standard PC HAL.
So win2k is installed but I cant seem to get onto the internet and update any of the drivers.
THe computer is a IBM netvista 8307 model. They had some deal on it awhile back for less than $150..so I couldnt pass it up.
Im kinda lost right now..not sure what the problem is.
I did add a new video card before I installed the OS. could that have been the problem?
If so..how would I go about fixing this.
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How do I remove the background color brick from behind the text on a desktop icon in Windows XP Pro.?
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Feb 10, 2006
Formated the drive, installed XP, it re-booted to continue the installation and then it hangs on a BSOD saying that my BIOS is not fully ACPI compatible. I am using an SATA drive. Specs: ASUS A8n-SLI 16 Deluxe, AMD 4200+X2 64 Dual Core, 250GB WD SATA drive, 2GB corsair 3200c2. I am thinking of just turning acpi off and then putting it back on once xp is on.
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I messed with some setting in the window for display properties>screen saver>Power Option Properties. Don't remember what I did, but the next time I restarted the comp. it loads windows then immediately after the startup screen goes away it says it's going into hibernation and does.It will stay on in Safe Mode, but the checkmark that tells hib to be on or not is not there. I've tried disabling ACPI in the BIOS but that doesn't fix it.There has to be some setting in the registry that can be changed to disable hiber, but no one seems to know how.
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Aug 12, 2002
Here is an easier way to do the Fresh Install with no ACPI. When setup is loading, the blue screen will ask if you have any raid devices, and to press F6. When it does that, press and hold F7, & Congratulations! No ACPI will be installed.
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Sep 24, 2006
I have just: Done a successful repair/rebuild of XP Home Did a CHKDSK /r/f on my System drive Defragmented my system drive with PerfectDisk Read and applied recommentations on changes so that I would see errors when my system re-boots Yet, When I shutdown my PC, it will shotdown, then re-boot again, without the benefit of a error messagw to help me figure out why it is re-booting instead of shutting down and powering off. Is there something wrong with my Phoenix Bios have ACPI On? What can I do to see error/warning messages on why my system re-boots when I shutdown?
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
2.08 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7N8X Deluxe
Bus Clock: 166 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A7N8X Deluxe ACPI BIOS Rev 1009 09/27/2005
1024 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'DDR1' has 512 MB
Slot 'DDR2' has 256 MB
Slot 'DDR3' has 256 MB
NVIDIA nForce2 ATA Controller (v2.6)
Graphics Card ? ATI AIW 9600- XT ? AGP
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Jun 23, 2002
I installed a fresh copy of WIN2000 on my IBM Thinkpad A21m but I am having a problem setting up a device in Device Mangager. I have no idea what is going on.
When i reboot the laptop it prompts me that it has found a new piece of hardware and it wants me to install the driver for it. The problem is that I have no idea what device it is since all the devices that should be working are working - so i don't know what to do.
The clues that I have noticed that might help:
- the laptop takes a LOOOONG time to boot up (3 or 4 mins), and is sort of sluggish in operation (compared to how it ran when i bought it)
- my internet connection is super slow ( I have a DSL router that serves 3 computers incl. mine, the other two have XP and everythign runs smooth)
- the unknown device says it is located on the the "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Embedded Controller"
Would any one know what Device this "Unknown Device" is??? I just need to know so i can install the driver so my system can run properly.
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Jan 23, 2007
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With my problem drive set up as a slave, is there a way to change the settings back, or manually cut and paste Hkeys, or system folders or the like to restore the drive to it's previous state? Seems logical same computer with the same installation of xp pro sp2
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Apr 5, 2005
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Mar 12, 2010
Hi
A8N SLI
1 GB Ram
6600 GT
Here goes, I had a dual boot system then I deinstalled Windows 7. I believe that Windows 7 leaves the boot loader so i ended up with.
Hard Drive 2: Bootable: Opening up the choise of OS between Windows 7 (even though Not installed hence my beliefe taht Win 7 leaves behind the boot loader). So on this screen I choose "earlier versions of windows and then it boots:
Hard Drive 1: Which has XP.
Since I wanted to clean this up I am trying a new install. Therefore I removed Hard Drive 2 and ran Win XP pro setup. Foolishly I believed someone who told me that there would be no problems. That XP would make HArd Drive one bootable and that then XP would install correctly.
I should perhaps note that I used a new copy of XP with service packs as I thought it would make more sense than the XP I've used previously which was the first version of XP.
Firstly, XP formatted the hard drive. Detected no problems. Then it copied across files. No Problem. Then on first loading XP I got the error message "Your BIOS" is not ACPI compliant. Contact Hardware Update.com to get update.
I have installed XP many many times on my system with exactly the same hardware and I have never got this message. Therefore I thought that maybe it was something to do with Windows 7 affecting the BIOS or maybe that XP with service packs conflicts with my motherboard. So I tried an earlier version of XP Pro that didn't have the service packs included.
Same message came up at the same time. On first running XP it gets to the Microsoft logo and then the same message comes up "BIOS not ACPI compliant."
At this point I thought that maybe the best thing would be to remove the CMOS battery. Clear the CMOS and therefore any bios setting would revert back to default and I could then proceed.
At this point when I rebooted the BIOS failed to detect the hard drive at all. I replaced it with another hard drive but still the BIOS doesn;t see a hard drive. I tried changing the SATA cables, changing which SATA port the drive connects too. I've now tested the hard drives in another PC and they are working.
So to recap:
BIOS doesn;t detect hard Drive.
Even when it did the XP installalation freezes at the fist run of XP saying BIOS not ACPI compliant.
As noted the hard drives worked before . I've reinstalled many times and never had any problems.
I am a total loss how to proceed. I've thought about flashing the BIOS with an update but since I've installed XP with exactly the same hard drive why should XP suddenly talk about ACPI. The BIOS not seeing a hard drive at all is weird. Even though I've changed SATA connectors on the hard drives and which connect to the Motherboard I'd expect it to see something.
ANy help very very much appreciated
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Mar 1, 2005
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Dec 23, 2008
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Dec 18, 2004
but i think i posted this in the other area before. i had some bugs i couldn't delete in normal mode, so im like oh kay, easy, go in safe and delete the suckers. i restart my computer and f8, and try to go into safe mode, said something about your computer was shut down incorrectly or power lost and some files are missing now.
so im like, ummmmmmmmmmm... how do i get round this. so, i restarted my computer and put it in to the (Last Known Good Configuration), i know, i went to Run>msconfig>Boot.ini>tick /SAFEBOOT and restart my computer, not knowing this was one of the biggest mistakes i've ever done. it starts and it runs a little big and boooom!!! blue screen pops up and this is what it says, "a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damange to your computer....
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Sep 17, 2009
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All of a sudden it tries logging me in automatically when I start up but the thing is i dont need to log in. So I try to go back into normal mode and Ican't. I hit F8 during startup and went to the Boot Normally option but it still does to safe mode. What do I do? How do I log on or how do I get rid of this password thing? One more thing, the window that tells me the password is wrong has an OK box but theres no mouse on the screen for me to click it and I can't use the keyboard to select it.
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