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re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)'
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 at 1:07 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Sharptooth
(1 messages posted)
This reply comes a little late, but I hope there are still people using the ASUS
P5A, as this was and still is an extremely stable Super 7 motherboard for the K6-2/3x
series of processors.
This board may not be ACPI compliant under Windows XP, however it *is* fully compliant
under Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Professional.
I am using BIOS revision 1011 Beta 005, and my P5A is revision 1.06. This is an ACPI
BIOS revision and is required for Windows ACPI features.
Under a Windows 2000 installation, if booting from the CD, when prompted to press
'F6', instead press 'F5' and choose 'ACPI Computer' from the options given (This tip comes from this
NT Compatible).
No additional settings were required under a standard boot-from-CD Windows Server
2003 installation, and all devices detected first time.
(Here
is the listing from my Device Manager)
All power options are available, including Hibernate, and the ability to switch off
the PC by pressing the power button. When you choose to shut down the PC, it will
do exactly that in true ACPI style.
As regards the other posts in this thread referring to hard disks on this motherboard,
I opted to install a Promise Ultra100 TX2 controller onto my board, which fortunately
is backwards compatible with the P5A's old 33MHz PCI slots. I've got 3 disks attached
to this card, two 80 GB, one 30 GB. I highly recommend this over using the P5A's
on-board IDE controller because there is a huge performance gain to be had from
using a separate controller card due to increased bandwidth; reduced overhead on
the CPU; and support for high capacity hard disks.
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