win2k and acpi

[mj12]

Ok, I've just spent the last few hours reinstalling w2k to use the acpi hal and have a few tips for others. First of all read these kb articles to understand a little about how w2k determines acpi. <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q216/5/73.ASP">Q216573</a>
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q224/8/26.asp?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB">Q224826</a>
and the <a href="http://www.teleport.com/~acpi/">acpi home page</a>. First make sure you have latest bios update and yours can do acpi. And then if the w2k Txtsetup.sif does not list your bios as a good bios you can change it to force acpi. btw, I have the abitbx6r2 and it wasn't listed so I had to force it. As I was writing this I decided to test it out. I did a standby and my pc went into standby mode. I went and got a drink came back and hit the power button and it came back alive and the workstation was auto locked. Pretty cool stuff!
irq settings with acpi:
1 - keyboard
6 - floppy disk controller
7 - Matrox Millennium G400 DH
7 - Intel PCI to USB Host Controller
7 - Vortex Multifunction PCI Parent
7 - Aureal Vortex Audio
7 - Adaptec 2940u2w
7 - 3com 3c905b-tx
8 - system cmos/rtc
9 - microsoft acpi-compliant system
13 - numeric data processor


[This message has been edited by mj12 (edited 21 January 2000).]

[Gurm]

Thanks, this confirms what I've been seeing as well. 8-)

- Gurm

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[Scytale]

Interesting.