Aftrer I upgraded from '98 to XP on my old Vaio PCG I found it was refusing to work 
on CarBus mode. Following your tip I was able to fix this problem. Thanks Josh and 
co-worker

Antonio







On Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 11:44 am, Josh wrote:

>

>Comment Dealing 

>with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM):


>

>Here are two ways to fix the persistant problem in XP and 2000 of the system going 

>to standby on a whim and not of your choosing:

>

>One way is if you already have the OS installed, go to your device manager and Expand 

>Computer. It should say Advanced Configuration And Power Interface (ACPI) PC. Right 

>click that, and Properties. Under driver tab, click update driver, next, click display 

>a list yada yada, next, Click show all hardware in this class, Under standard computer 

>mfg's choose standard PC, next, then yes yes whatever. 

>

>If the OS isnt installed, and you're installing it, as soon as you enter into the 

>setup, it will say at the bottom of the blue screen, "Press F6 to install Raid or 

>Scsi" or something like that, when it says that press F5. It will continue to load 

>all those devices but when done it will ask you the type of computer you want. It 

>only shows a list of two, but there are more in the list, all you need to do is 
arrow 

>your way up or down to find Standard PC then select it and go on like normal. That 

>will disable ACPI from the beginning. ACPI will still have its own IRQ, but it wont 

>be automatically assigning IRQ's to everything. it will sort of be just there and 

>not do anything. 

>

>This worked for me on an XP Home platform.

>

>This solution was forwarded to me from a co-worker so I will not take credit for 

>it.

>

>
 

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