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re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)'
Monday, March 19, 2007 at 8:25 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Shawn
(1 messages posted)
I know this is way old, but a client's computer (Acer Aspire 3000) here was having
problems loading Windows XP Home AND Pro, neither worked. Then I noticed in ntbtlog.txt
that after ACPI did NOT load, nothing else did either, and after that there was just
looping of "did not load" this and that.
After re-flashing the BIOS and removing the cmos batt and letting it sit for a while,
the first boot after that brought a blue screen instead of the regular black hang
up. After running a chkdsk /R the issue seemed to be resolved and the computer booted
XP just fine and dandy.. for about a week. The computer would boot safe mode ok,
but not regular mode no matter what.
Setting ACPI PC to Standard PC in device manager gave us immediate results - a regular
boot worked perfectly! This laptop must have some sort of ACPI tables issue where
they get absolutely trashed and the only way to fix that issue is to re-flash and
clear CMOS. Hopefully ACPI will no longer be an issue with it being "disabled" in
XP.
Thanks for the tip,
Shawn
P.S. Stress tests, memory tests, HD tests.. ALL came back OK so I was positive this
was some kind of software glitch.
On Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 11:44 am, Josh wrote:
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>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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