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Re: BIOS Upgrade



Nigel Giddings wrote:

> Just taken delivery of a 2nd hand PC and monitor from
www.bigpockets.com
> , its a fujitsu which I am happy with on the whole, bought as a
> Christmas present for Sister and Brother in Law. Only issue is that
the
> BIOS does not support ACPI so it won't load Win2K.
>
> What surprised me is that Award now charge for BIOS upgrades... $25 in
> this case.
>
> I noticed you should be able to disable ACPI support during install
but
> I couldn't, any suggestions ?

I routinly disble acpi on install

Press F6 or F7 (cant recall which) when it asks about 3rd party scsi
drivers,
then you will get a choice of what you have, pick standard PC from the list


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