ACPI (AGAIN)

[aircooled]

i know there has been much discussion about ACPI.

I have a BE6 with have win2000 installed, unfortunatley it installed as ACPI ( I didn;t even check until it was too late ), now I want ACPI disabled, and microsoft says you must disable it in the bios and then re-install win2k (not an upgrade instal, it must me a NEW install since the registry entries are so different).

Is there any way to truley disable ACPI without doing a re-install??

I would like to hear from folks who have successfully went from ACPI to Standard without re-installing windows.

Thanks...

 

[AndyHui]

It doesn't always work properly, but you can go into Device Manager, click on Computer, and change ACPI PC to Standard PC by loading the drivers. After that, reboot.

 

[Spiff]

ACPI is a good thing... is it causing you problems? if not, then why remove it?

 

[aircooled]

It is causing stability issues during boot-up. After logging in it will randomly crash or reboot. This happens during the time that windows is issigning IRQ addresses with ACPI. When it does let me in, then it stays stable throughout the session. I also have an ABIT BE6 which from what I have read does not handle ACPI very well.

i guess I will try disabling it in the BIOS and see if it lets me in. If now I'll just have to re-install. I was trying to get around that.

 

[Kishkumen]

I have been having tons of problem with my MX300 sound card and the CMD66 controller sharing the same IRQ (IRQ 9 to be exact) on my Asus CUBX. The sound card would cough and sputter while playing mp3s, wavs, games, etc, basically any time the hard drive was accessed while playing sound. Well I just went into device manager and changed it from ACPI to standard PC. The CMD controller is now on IRQ 10 and the sound card on IRQ 4 and my computer run SOOOOO much better now, it makes me want to weep bitterly for all the suffering Microsoft has been putting me through with this stupid problem. Luckily it only took about 5 min to reinstall all the drivers as win2k easily found them still on the hard drive. L8r.