Question about 'Making Sure the Correct HAL is Installed' Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 1:31 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Richard Sargeant (1 messages posted) Further to my notes on this, I forgot to mention that you can select from a menu to force the type of HAL to be installed by pressing the hidden F5 option when the message "Press F6 to install a third-party disk driver" (or somesuch) appears when installing XP. F7 here forces the installation of the standard HAL. There is another note about ACPI settings in BIOS setups that relates to this subject at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prdh_dmt_odlv.asp. Briefly, this states (surprisingly but correctly) you should ALWAYS set "PnP OS" to NO in any BIOS. If you want to know the reasoning behind this, read the article noted above. Last but not least, if you rummage around on the XP or 2000 CD, (in support tools, I think) there's a utility that can be run under ANY version of Windows, that will check your system to see if it is truly ACPI compliant. HTH, RS There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Making Sure the Correct HAL is Installed' (Richard Sargeant: Thu, Jan 3, 2002, 1:31 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum