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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re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' Tuesday, October 1, 2002 at 2:58 am Posted by John Bond (2 messages posted) Thanks for the information. I had to reinstall XP as an upgrade then selected F5. Problem solved! Thanks again John 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. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at 2:09 pm Posted by Abe Krausz (1 messages posted) Hello John. Usud your advise and disabled acpi in devise manager and now have it set as standard PC. Seems to have solved the freezing problem. Now the question, is there a way to se how much power I have left in my battery. It seems that the battery icon in the little tray is gone. 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. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' Thursday, November 20, 2003 at 3:35 am Posted by dbp (1 messages posted) Thanks Josh and Josh's friend .. it really helps me to solve the troublesome problem for whole month! Disable ACPI really makes the system NOT HANG and NOT FREEZE now by a random period of time [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' Monday, January 2, 2006 at 12:03 pm Posted by Jim C (1 messages posted) System : ( Old) Panrix, 1.3 AMD, Gigabyte GA-7DX board ; System would hang maybe once a month with Win2K, but hourly after upgrading to XP home. Took out non-XP SCSI disk & Promise Raid ctlr, but no change. Tried the fix suggested in this thread - loading 'Standard PC ' driver - on rebooting, the screen resolution was back at 800x600, & the new hardware wizard rediscovered what few hardware items were still connected. Device manager no longer offered ACPI PC as an option, so bottled out & went back to last restore point ( fortunately from previous day, more fortunately, it worked.. ). If you still want to try this, check your latest restore point first. Possibly reinstalling the OS is preferable to reloading all the drivers with the new hardware wizard. jec On Thursday, November 20, 2003 at 3:35 am, dbp wrote: >Thanks Josh and Josh's friend .. it really helps me to solve the troublesome problem >for whole month! > >Disable ACPI really makes the system NOT HANG and NOT FREEZE now by a random period >of time [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' Tuesday, March 7, 2006 at 2:32 pm Posted by Tony (1 messages posted) Hi, I followed the advise posted here and have now lost some of my laptop's functionality. When inserting my wireless network PCMCIA (cardbus) card, I get the message: "...the firmware on this system is not configured to allow the cardbus controller to be run in cardbus mode. The operating system will currently accept only 16-bit (R2) pc" I've tried to update the driver to revert back to the original configuration butthe other options are no longer available. I only have the option to update to 'standard PC'. Is it possible to roll-back from this change? Thanks in advance, Tony 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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] raid and ASCI Thursday, August 3, 2006 at 5:08 am Posted by luke (1 messages posted) when u hit f5 to go into it and change the computer settings can you still install raid drivers? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 9:52 am 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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Dealing with Windows's Advanced Power Management (APM)' Monday, March 19, 2007 at 8:25 am 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: > >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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum