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re: Question about 'Making Sure the Correct HAL is Installed'
Tuesday, January 1, 2002 at 4:11 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John Terry
(2 messages posted)
I have two additional questions.
1.) I have a dual boot WinME/Win2k machine with a Win2K installation uses the Standard
Computer HAL because the mainboard bios was not fully ACPI compliant when Win2K was
first installed.
I have since upgraded the bios and want to "upgrade" the HAL to ACPI.
Since machine is dual boot WinME/Win2K, if I proceed to upgrade the Win2K HAL as
described by booting from the Win2K Setup disk, will the program upgrade the Win2K
installation without disrupting the WinME section and the dual boot function.
2.) If I want to switch (upgrade) the motherboad maintaining the same hard drive
boot disks, will the system start-up with the new motherboard and allow me to upgrade
the HAL and complete a motherboard switch without the need to reinstall applications?
Thanks
J Terry
On Wednesday, December 26, 2001 at 8:14 pm, David Evans wrote:
>
>I had a similar problem with win2k not controlling power (e.g. It would tell the
>user
>to shut the machine off instead of doing so itself).
>
>Going through the pseudo-upgrade process changed the HAL and has fixed that
>problem. It has not fixed a problem with adding more memory. A question about
>which I will post in a different sub thread.
>
>NOTE: At least for me getting the setup program to perform an "Upgrade" process
>was non intuitive.
>The setup program first asks if I want to Repair or Install. It is necessary to
>"Install"
>in the first question, not repair. Then the setup program once again searches the
>drive and identifies that there is a win2k OS already installed. It _again_ asks
>if you
>want to install or Repair. To this _second_ question about repairing is when you
>tell
>it to repair. If you tell it the first time, it does not actually do what you want
>(i.e. after
>multiple times through my HAL was not changed when "Repairing" from the first
>question.). It should be noted that the word "Upgrade" was not used by the setup
>program at any time until _after_ all choices are already made!
>
>This pseudo-upgrade appears to not have any significant impact on the operation
of
>other programs already installed on the machine without the need to do anything
>extra on my part. Please note that this was the "Upgrade" process, not the complete
>re-install. The complete re-install explicitly states on-screen that all of your
>configuration and "My Documents" directories will be wiped.
>
>
>On the other hand I _always_ recommend that you make a backup prior to making
>significant changes.
>
>Dave
>
>
>On Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 1:31 am, harpua wrote:
>I have a few questions about the HAL on Windows 2000:
>
>I believe I have a problem with APM: my computer will not turn itself off when I
>shutdown. It is a dual boot system, and will shut down fine in Win98. Therefore,
>the BIOS is working fine.
>
>Question #1:
>Should I search the website/contact technical support of the computer manufacturer,
>the motherboard manufacturer, or Microsoft to determine if I should upgrade my HAL?
>
>
>Question #2:
>If I do have to upgrade (i.e., reinstall, according to the instructions of this
>article),
>will backing up my registry and reloading it afterwards make my programs work so
>I don't have to reinstall them?
>
>Question #3:
>I have trouble with my floppy drive: everytime I try to read a floopy disk, I get
>the following message:
>
>"A:/ not accessible.
>
>The floppy disk controller reported an error that is not recognized by the floppy
>disk driver."
>
>Could this also be resolved my reinstalling a new, correct HAL?
>
>My thanks to anyone who can help.
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