----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 12:03
PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT - Win2K Not
shutting PC down?
OK. Let's try
this...
If you look in
Control Panel/System/Device Manager/Computer it will display the HAL type.
What you want to see here is ACPI Uniprocessor PC or ACPI Multiprocessor PC
(obviously, depending on the number of processors you
have).
Whilst you can
use
device manager to change from Uni- to Multi-processor, you MUST NOT use
device
manager to change to or from an ACPI HAL - if you do, you won't be able to
start Win2k!
To upgrade to
an
ACPI HAL, you should rerun the Win2K setup as an upgrade - first, make sure
that your Mobo/BIOS is ACPI compliant
I would
strongly
recommend you get the latest BIOS update for your motherboard and _UPDATE
YOU
EMERGENCY REPAIR DISKS FIRST_ (just in case).
When you get to "Press F6 if you need to
install a third party SCSI or RAID driver", press F5 and manually specify
the
HAL type - you're hoping to see the appropriate ACPI HAL
listed.
Win2k setup
uses
lists of known BIOSs and the BIOS date to determine whether or not to
install
the ACPI HAL - it would be all too easy to get it
wrong.
If you have a
dual-proc ASUS motherboard, it's likely to also benefit from a hardware mod
(usually moving a resistor) - otherwise it tends to chew up processor
resource.
Phew, hope that
helps!
Steve
During installation W2K is supposed to detect
whether you have an ACPI compatible motherboard - and if you do then it
enables power management. I say 'suppose' because, well, it's Microsoft,
isn't it ;-).
You may need either a BIOS flash upgrade to
get
the latest W2K-compatible version or just to push the OS in the right
direction a bit. There is some menu, I think, where you can force power
management to be enabled but I can't remember where. A quick search in W2K
help doesn't reveal anything either. One thing you might try is enabling
APM
instead (I never really understood the difference) - there may be an APM
tab
in power options inside control panel which you can enable advanced power
management from.
Oliver.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 11:01
AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT - Win2K Not
shutting PC down?
Some do, I'll have a dig around for some details. The
dual-proc machine I'm using now doesn't but the Dell 610 I've got at work
does. I'll find out if it's registry related or if there's anything more
specific required.
Steve
I bought ME and found it to be the biggest pile of sh*t that I
ever ran as an OS - I even preferred 95! Most of my apps that I use all
the time wouldn't recognise the OS to be able to install the correct
version and the drivers for my 35mm film scanner ran at about 5% of the
speed that they did on the same machine when it had NT installed on it.
That is - of course - until after about an hour of scanning when
suddenly they would start reporting back spurious error messages before
finally deciding that the CCD array in the film scanner had died and
that was that. (A very scary moment I can tell you until I moved the
film scanner over onto another machine and it worked
perfectly!)
None of the flavours of Win2k that I've tried will turn off the
PC when doing a shutdown ... I too have several ATX and T based machines
and *NONE* of the ATX machines will power off with Win2k - I always
assumed it was down to Win2k's NT heritage!
Phil
Installed Win2K Pro on one of my machines
yesterday (finally got fed-up of Win ME).
Everything's fine except when I shut down
the PC just sits there with the message that it's safe to turn
off. It doesn't actually turn itself off like ATX machines do
(and this one did with ME on it).
Any ideas?
Thanks
M.
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