CK

Thanks for the quick reply, not what I wanted to hear but if this is the case then 
I will have to live with it, you say it is not compatiable with XP hardware, from 
your experience what is the largest hard drive this board will accept under XP I 
know this is going away from the original thread but I was thinking of putting in 
a 60GB drive as a second device the master drive is 10GB (XP OS) or should I save 
my money .

Paul






On Saturday, November 22, 2003 at 9:53 am, C K wrote:
>The P5A even with the lastest BETA BIOS is not compatible with XP's ACPI spec.  
The 
>board is to old.  It installs with the Standard PC HAL as the BIOS and the hardware 
>is not XP compatible.  It will power down with Win 2000 with the BETA BIOS but not 
>with XP.  I have tried installing the ACPI HAL in XP and it will not work on a P5A 
>board I have here.  The PC will lock up.  XP defaults to the standard PC HAL when 
>it installs.  Leave all BIOS settings at their defaults.  See here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314088&Product=winxp
>
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