SiS645 - The weakest link?

[The PIT]

well if the problem is fixed why bother??

[uberlad]

It's not fixed 8-(

Ran through when I got home and it crashed again.

I will check if the hal.dll is installed and stuff, and will get around to the latest BIOS, and generally kick it a little more and see if we can't get some goddamn stability around here.

Uberlad

[uberlad]

Curse.

Selecting APIC just caused the drive to buzz for a couple of seconds and the machine to lock. I'll give it a decent run in the morning before removing it from the boot menu, just to make sure that it isn't just thinking about something for a very long time indeed.

Thanks for the heads up, good that we can fiddle without breaking everyhting.

To confirm - the hal.dll I have in system32 is considerably smaller than the acpi hal I have uncompressed from the media. I shall fiddle some more, but now I must sleep.

thanks ralf,

Uberlad

[Technoid]

hm.. the "C" version does support Apic....

The Turbo2 series did that and its already phased out so it would be strange if yours didn't

[uberlad]

I am reasonably resigned to reinstalling windows now as a last resort. I'm sure I missed any kind of option to install an APIC hal when I originally installed XP, is it something in the advanced setup that I missed or will the installer choose the best hal for the job?

Of course, I could always go back to win98. It at least has proper drivers for the soundcard

Uberlad

[Technoid]

Win2000 does it automagicaly

[Gurm]

You can force install ACPI, which should install the correct HAL. It sounds like the installer decided to install the standard PC HAL, and then after the fact realized that you had ACPI support.

When installing, and it says "Press F6 if you have drivers for storage or RAID devices...", press F5 instead. After a minute it will let you choose from HALs. Pick "Advanced Configuration and Power Management (ACPI) PC".

- Gurm

[Wombat]

Gurm, what if you need to do both? F5 first, or F6?

[Victorian]

Originally posted by Wombat
Gurm, what if you need to do both? F5 first, or F6?

Good question. Whenever I've tried it seems that you can only do one or the other.

[uberlad]

Aha, and here we get to my problem - I have a SCSI card running my DVD drive and CD burner.

The only way to sort the problem is going to be to install the machine with an IDE CD drive and then add the SCSI afterwards.

This would explain why I have the same problem in my win2K install as well - pretty much the same setup system.

But it is a plan I can try, thanks for the info Gurm.

Now I just need the time to reinstall the whole machine.

Uberlad

[LvR]

You saying you cant boot from that SCSI cd drive?

If you can, then you should not need to use F6 to install a 3rd party driver - you just install Windows and the cards drivers you can install later if its not part of Windows - maybe I am missing something?

[rubank]

uberlad,

before you reinstall the OS, you should try to switch to StandardPC.
In the device manager right click "computer" and choose to update driver and go for the manual install. You´ll get a popup windows where you have the option to choose ACPI (current) or StandardPC. Choose StandardPC.
All your components will be automatically reinstalled.

I have it from several sources that a lot of add-in equipment don´t like the ACPI, and your soundcard is a definite suspect.

Besides, the route Gurm proposes will most likely not work if you didn´t get it to work the way ralf suggested before he abandoned ship; it´s essentially the same thing without the option to choose at boot.

rubank

[LvR]

Thats a nifty trick rubank.

Have you tried it on W2K as well, and can the reverse be done as well - ie - switching from standard to ACPI?

[Gurm]

No, you can't switch from standard to ACPI, only from ACPI to standard.

And reinstalling in ACPI mode is NOT the same as trying to hack the system to do ACPI after the fact. Not at all.

- Gurm

[uberlad]

Every time I'm resigned to a reinstall someone comes through with a new ray of hope

I set the PC to standard PC some point last year, but had completely forgotten about the technique.

I@ve never managed to get the DVD drive to boot, I think I might have screwed up something in the config of the SCSI card. I@ll look into that as well.

This is all gold guys, maybe this time it'll work


Uberlad