re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)'
Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 9:52 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Antonio Borraccino
(1 messages posted)
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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