re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' Thursday, August 1, 2002 at 11:30 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6909 messages posted) If you reinstalled AFTER the problem was fixed, you just recreated the problem that was fixed... (if I understand what you are saying) Confused? Well.. When the problem was fixed, most likely the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) was downgraded to a standard PC HAL. If you reinstalled the OP system you just reinstalled the previous HAL all over again so now the HAL will need to be downgraded again. In the future if reinstalling, you will have to hit the F5 key immediately when starting the installation before it asks if any third party/SCSI drivers need to be installed. The "Standard PC" HAL should be chosen from a list you will see. (you will have to scroll up or down to see all the choices) Depending on the age of your computer you will need a BIOS update and is probably the reason for the problem anyway. Most computers older than a year or so need BIOS updates to handle XP correctly (and if it is to old, it won't handle ACPI correctly anyway) so you can go to the motherboard manufacturers website to check it out. If it is a Dell, HP etc, go to their website to check. If it is a computer like Dell, HP etc and it didn't come with XP, they won't support it. If you need the steps to revert back to standard, post back.. C K :-) On Tuesday, July 30, 2002 at 10:14 pm, Dawn wrote: >I have a question about Dealing >with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM): > >I have a problem with my Advanced Power Management. It is freezing my pc. From what >I can see, something is trying to write to illegal addresses on my hardrive which >causes my pc to freeze. I managed to get someone to replace the Advanced power management >for the standard power management. > >I have reinstalled and once again the problem has reoccured. Can someone make any >suggestions to what is going or can tell me how to replace the advanced power management >for the standard power management. > >I would be grateful for any help on this. >thanks >Dawn > > Written in response to: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (Dawn: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 at 10:14 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (Dawn: Tue, Jul 30, 2002, 10:14 pm) re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' (C K: Thu, Aug 1, 2002, 11:30 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum