Re: ACPI Compliant

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From: *Vanguard* (do-not-email_at_reply-to-group)
Date: 08/08/04 

Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 02:50:32 -0500

"Willy" <justask@hotmail.com>
wrote in news:u$$hMLEfEHA.1048@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:
> Now will installing this BIOS upgrade get it ACPI Compliant since I've
> pressed the F7 as noted earlier which disables the installation of
> the ACPI HAL and installs the Standard PC HAL?

If your BIOS doesn't support ACPI or was set to use APM during the
install of Windows, and if pressing F7 resulted in installing the
standard HAL (hardware abstraction layer), and that is what you want to
stick with then you don't have to flash the BIOS to be ACPI compliant
(and doing so might screw you up if the BIOS then defaults to ACPI
instead of sticking with APM while you have the non-ACPI HAL already
installed). I believe the standard HAL will still work okay on an
ACPI-enabled host. You just don't get the extra features of ACPI.

If you want to switch from using the standard HAL to using the ACPI HAL,
flash the BIOS to make it ACPI capable, make sure the BIOS is configured
to enable ACPI, and follow http://support.microsoft.com/?id=299340 and
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315341 (method 2). 

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