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re: Question about 'Making Sure the Correct HAL is Installed'
Friday, January 30, 2004 at 11:09 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Chris Baca
(1 messages posted)
Here's my experience, maybe this can help you to solve your problem. I had Windows
XP Home edition installed on Computer A. Computer A's board blew up. Rather than
build a new Computer B completely from scratch, I instead bought a new case and board
and stuck most of the existing parts from Computer A into Computer B. How clever
I am, I thought. I booted Computer B and everything seemed fine, except for a few
hiccups while XP sorted out which devices were new, still this was expected and after
that everything seemed jake, except for when I powered down...instead of the computer
powering down completely after choosing shutdown, it displayed the "It is now safe
to shut down your computer" message. What's going on here?
I fiddled with settings in the ACP tab of the Power control panel. All that checking
the 'enable ACPI' setting accomplished was to shut down the compter, only to have
it restart immediately. So I switched that setting back and lived with the annoyance
for the longest time. But this thread gave me the clues I needed.
I fixed the problem by rerunning the Windows XP Home edition installation CD and
choosing the Repair option. Go through the 45 minute process of reinstalling core
OS files. If you choose Repair then none of your data, hardware profiles, applications
or other personal settings, except for display resolution, will be changed. Resolution
reverts to 800x600. Interestingly the ACP tab no longer appears in the Power control
panel. Also the computer device as listed in the Device Manager is now different.
Before the repair it listed as Generic PC. Now it says "Advanced Configuration and
Power Interface (ACPI) PC" Start -- control panel -- System. Hardware tab -- Device
Manager. Expand computer. In the course of troubleshooting I did tour through the
BIOS configuration utility. There I enabled ACPI support. I don't know if that option
was strictly necessary but it made sense. Now things work fine and I don't have to
wait till that message displays before powering down. It does it by itself, as it
should.
Thank you to all those on this thread! CB
On Thursday, October 30, 2003 at 1:14 pm, Paul Nicholls wrote:
>Hi,
>I recently built a computer and installed XP Home on it, but as it is not for me,
>I can't check the HAL at the moment, but I believe it is what is wrong with it -
>it doesn't appear to shutdown properly - and once or twice even turned itself on
>- although it is not set to. I know how to check the HAL, but is there any way
to
>change it without reinstalling XP? I believe it is probably not set to the ACPI
>Compliant HAL, but as I said, I'm not currently sure which one is running.
>
>Please help,
>Paul Nicholls
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