Disabling ACPI on my CUSL2-C

[Jimnsb]

Been running Win95 so long I didn't see this coming. When I ran the 'INF Update utility for 815 chipset' on the CD that came with my CUSL2-C (815EP chipset) it installed ACPI and a SMBus controller on my system. Needless to say ACPI is causing all sorts of problems and I can't find a way to remove it...the SMBus controller I just disabled in device manager, but I'd like to see it go too. Appreciate any help or ideas.Jim

 

[rkoenn]

It is enabled in the BIOS I believe. Go into the Power savings item in the BIOS and see if you can disable it. If that is possible, then I believe windows should disable it also. A note if you ever install Win2K in an ACPI machine. To go from or to ACPI if not in it to begin with, you have to reinstall the whole OS. Let me know if you can disable it in the BIOS.

 

[Jimnsb]

Damn, I was looking for ACPI specifically, thought the powerdown section was separate. That did remove my devices from ACPI's evil control, but my original problem still remains: 'ACPI IRQ holder for PCI IRQ steering' still inhabits all my cards' IRQ's. I need to have a totally clean IRQ for my NIC; seems this is where all the shutdown problems are from...plus my RoadRunner connection is crawling at modem speed and they say the fix is to put the NIC on its own IRQ. I need to remove ACPI, hopefully w/o having to start with FDISK.

 

[hifimaster]

Open device manager (right click my computer,go to propeties,hardware,device manager),open the computer tab (first one down),Double click on "Advanced configuration and power interface" (to get to proporties)click the drive tab,and go down to "update driver",once you get there choose "next",then "display a list of known drivers for this device so that I can choose a specific driver" click next,then show all hardware for this device class,then you will see a list of drivers, you want:
Manufacturer=standard computer Models=standard pc
Install this driver (it will say it wont work but it will) Reboot after you install this (it will ask you to reboot).

When you restart it will load all your devices again,you may need to track down certain files and drivers using the "find files or folders" tool ,once it reloads all your drivers you will reboot and then everything will be ok.

 

[benjamat]

Not sure about the effect of disabling acpi in bios but you will correct all the problems with sm bus management by getting the latest inf file from the intel site