Disabling ACPI

[PsyEightNinety]

With my current video card (Visiontek 32mb geforce2 GTS) windows sets the same IRQ to several different things. This causes the computer to randomly lock up. In order to fix this, I need to disable ACPI in the BIOS, but when I disable ACPI the computer restarts after the first windows boot screen. (Black screen, white load bar, where you can hit F8 for startup options.) I need to know how to get windows to boot with ACPI disabled.

 

[Eguy]

Are you sure about this ???

ACPI systems automatically configure all PCI devices. It generally does a very good job. You can not change a PCI device's resource setting to resolve conflicts. The only way to deal with resource conflicts in this situation is to remove devices one by one using Device Manager and force it to rescan them. You could also try the BIOS ESCD, set your BIOS to reset Extended System Configuration Data settings, reconfiguring PCI devices, or you could even manually specify BIOS resources for each PCI slot.

The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ( ACPI ) Viewer for Microsoft Windows 9X and Windows 2000 can be downloaded from Microsoft. You install ACPIVIEW by running the ACPIVIEW.EXE file that you download. It will create a directory called C:\ACPIVIEW and place ACPIVIEW.EXE in that directory. It will check the ACPI namespace and check device configurations and resources, and run methods that do not require an argument.

You can also download Suspender which consists of one executable, SUSPEND.EXE. Suspender is a commandline utility. You can launch Suspender and it will test your machine's power management functions by using your system's resume timer to repeatedly suspend and resume your machine.

Or you could reinstall W2K with ACPI disabled.

To disable ACPI:

After the text-mode phase of W2K setup completes, but before W2K reboots into the Setup Wizard:

Go to command mode and change the file attributes of c:\txtsetup.sif:
attrib -r -s -h c:\txtsetup.sif
Open txtsetup.sif using edit.
Find ACPIEnable and set to
ACPIEnable=0
ACPIEnable=0 means disable; ACPIEnable=1 means enable

Save c:\txtsetup.sif and reboot. This will startup the Setup Wizard.
A very useful site is PCI Information dedicated to programming and other technical information about the PCI & AGP Busses and the Advanced Configuration & Power Interface support site.

Microsoft's primary site for ACPI is

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/onnow

Now, having said that, what makes you so sure that your video card is causing this problem?

Ed



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[Cadwalader]

Should have hit F7 during the first few seconds of the first restart during the installation. I got the same darn thing... Hope I was of some help...
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Thanks for the help...
--Rich