Specifications

ManualsBrandsBiostar ManualsComputer equipmentM6TLA

Note that some people find that disabling ACPI means they lose all power management functions.



This procedure, submitted by Steve Aucoin, will allow you to disable ACPI without reformatting:

1. Disable PNP OS and ACPI in your BIOS, if you can (you may not be able to, and it is not always

necessary) - if the option is not available try installing the latest BIOS update for your

motherboard. You can get help with finding out what BIOS you need and instructions as to how to

flash it at Wim's BIOS page.

2. Reboot. Go to Control Panel - Hardware and double click on My Computer in the hardware

manager.

3. You'll see ACPI - get into its properties and click to install another driver. When prompted, look

under the Microsoft section and install the "Standard PC" driver.

4. Reboot. At this point Win2k will try and reinstall all devices on your system so install any drivers

you are prompted for (have them all handy) and reboot. Finalise any drivers you may be prompted

for on the 2nd boot and reboot again.

5. With all your drivers re-installed, take a look in hardware manager -

and every device should have

its own IRQ.

Be warned that this method is discouraged by Microsoft - see the note at the bottom of this Knowledge

Base article.



You can select not to enable ACPI when you first install Windows 2000 -

During the first phase of Setup,

at the Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration screen, press the F5 key. You can

select 'Standard PC' instead of an ACPI option.



You can also press F7 during the portion of setup that displays the message to press F6 for adding SCSI

drivers. This configures Setup to not try ACPI machine types.



If for some reason the above procedures doesn't work, follow the following procedure, provided by

Aaron Dierking, to disable ACPI from the outset.

1. Copy the i386 directory off the Windows 2000 CD onto your hard drive.

2. Go into the i386 directory on your HDD and find the txtsetup.sif. Open it with notepad.

3. Find the [ACPIOptions] section in the file. Below will be a setting for ACPIEnable - set it to 0.

4. Install Windows 2000 using your hard drive copy.

Back to Index

Q. I have an ASUS AGP-V6800 Deluxe card and I have updated my BIOS, but now I have

severe problems. What's going on?

This is because older ASUS AGP-

V6800 Deluxe cards use 8 Infineon RAM chips, and newer cards of the same

model only use 4 Samsung RAM chips, with a different BIOS to go with them (version 2.10.02.10.04). ASUS

offer a 'newer' BIOS on their website that enables sidebanding (version 2.10.02.10.02 sba), but this BIOS only

works with the 8 chip cards, not the newer 4 chip cards. If you use the sba BIOS on a newer card, you will get

display corruption and instability problems.

Jurgen Ludolph has provided me with a copy of the 2.10.02.10.04 BIOS that you can download if you have this

problem. It is available here:

http://www.geforcefaq.com/files/v6800d

2.10.02.10.04.zip

Page

GeForce FAQ