ACPI requirement

Posted: 11-27-2006, 04:43 PM

Eric

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Hello, I've tried to install Vista. First I had to buy a DVD rom. Then setup
told me that it needs half a giga memory and 256MB were not enough for setup
(I would accept a slow system). After buying that too and running setup
again, it tells me that setup cannot continue because the BIOS is not ACPI
compatible. In the official requirements of Vista I haven't read anything
about this requirement. Can this check be turned off in setup somehow? I
haven't found a switch for this, but I know that this was possible in XP
setup. I would accept that power management doesn't work 100% then. I cannot
buy a new motherboard and new BIOS software is not available.

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Rick Rogers

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Re: ACPI requirement

Posted: 11-29-2006, 02:19 AM

Hi,

There's no bypassing the check. If your motherboard does not meet current
standards and the BIOS cannot be upgraded, then you cannot (and would not
want to) install Vista on this system.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Eric" <bauersachs@kull.ch.cuthere.nospam.me.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, I've tried to install Vista. First I had to buy a DVD rom. Then
> setup told me that it needs half a giga memory and 256MB were not enough
> for setup (I would accept a slow system). After buying that too and
> running setup again, it tells me that setup cannot continue because the
> BIOS is not ACPI compatible. In the official requirements of Vista I
> haven't read anything about this requirement. Can this check be turned off
> in setup somehow? I haven't found a switch for this, but I know that this
> was possible in XP setup. I would accept that power management doesn't
> work 100% then. I cannot buy a new motherboard and new BIOS software is
> not available.
>

Eric

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Re: ACPI requirement

Posted: 11-29-2006, 10:39 AM

Why? As far as I know is ACPI used only for power management. I don't need
anything like this. Why can't Windows run without this?

Eric

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> There's no bypassing the check. If your motherboard does not meet current
> standards and the BIOS cannot be upgraded, then you cannot (and would not
> want to) install Vista on this system.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Rick Rogers

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Re: ACPI requirement

Posted: 11-29-2006, 11:42 AM

Hi Eric,

ACPI is much more than just the power management you are thinking of (the S*
power states, sleep, hibernation, etc.). This open-standard defines how the
operating system interacts with the hardware components in the system at a
low level. Vista uses the most recent standard (3.0a or b, I believe), and a
BIOS that is not compliant with this standard will not be able to interface
to Vista's hardware instructions.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Eric" <bauersachs@kull.ch.cuthere.nospam.me.com> wrote in message
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> Why? As far as I know is ACPI used only for power management. I don't need
> anything like this. Why can't Windows run without this?
>
> Eric
>
>
> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:ef0sJz1EHHA.3520@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> There's no bypassing the check. If your motherboard does not meet current
>> standards and the BIOS cannot be upgraded, then you cannot (and would not
>> want to) install Vista on this system.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
>

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