Haig-ACPI driver question

[PaulS]

Brent,

You think you have problems with ACPI. You should see what happens on multiprocessor motherboards with Windows 2000. Although a lot of these motherboards are ACPI compliant, prior to Windows 2000 there was no means of checking ACPI when using more than one CPU.

Paul.

[Brent]

I have tried to make a pact with myself not to even think about Win 2000 until SP 1. Please continue to put me off.
Cheers
Brent

[tish beta2]

That stuff never worked in win95, never in win98 and windows NT/2k don't got that option on the start-menu. I have a new motherboard now, and don't dare try it in win98, but how on earth do you get the computer into sleep-mode in windows2000? I haven't seen it in build 2040-> 2128. Please Advice (tm)?

It would be nice to see if the p2b-ds can do it. Or what it does instead

[Brent]

A nice hot styrafoam cup of Milo in the CD ROM tray works for mine.

[PaulS]

Tish,

Make sure you can access your winnt directory from another OS before trying this, if it fails you will need to restore your original hal.dll

Go to the device manager->under 'Computer' you will see the hal type currently loaded. Right click and change the driver to ACPI, single or multiprocessor depending on what you have.

After a reboot you will have the advanced power management stuff working if W2K and your BIOS are compatible. If not you will have a BSOD a few seconds after bootup.

If you get the BSOD, reverting to last known good won't help, you have to replace hal.dll with the non apm version, copy it before trying any of this.

Paul.