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From: Sarbjit Singh Gill (ssgill.NO.SPAM_at_NO.SPAM.hotmail.com)
Date: 12/07/04


Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 01:18:29 +0800

Had the same problem with a toshiba. Mine was not related to SP2 directly.
There could be a couple of things.
1. Get a BIOS flash upgrade (if there are any)
2. Start in save mode. Run MSCONFIG. Disable services that you think is the
cause .There are services which reply on ACPI.

Kind Regards
Gill

"Jordan Samulaitis" <jordan@jvsDELETEnetworks.com> wrote in message
news:u0dDoZH3EHA.3756@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I am running into a problem, we updated this one ibm notebook to service
> pack 2, and found out it was causing one of our applications to slow down,
> so we uninstalled it, and rebooted, everything was working fine, on monday
> when we returned, the computer was not allowing us to boot up to windows,
> we
> can get into safe mode but other than that we get the error.
>
> "The BIOS is not fully ACPI compliant"
>
> Anyone have any suggestions? we were on the phone with microsoft technical
> support and they told us after hours to just reinstall the operating
> system?
> any recommendations aside from that?
>
> Regards,
> Jordan
>
>



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