I have an HP Pavilion zt1000 laptop that came with XP home installed. About six months or so after purchase I was unable to enter secure websites or windows update. After an extensive volley of conversations with both HP and MS rather drastic measures were suggested: HP has a set of recovery disks that reformats the hard drive and reinstalls the original software; MS suggested reinstalling XP. I purchased a copy of XP and reinstalled it, but when it rebooted I would get the Blue Screen of Death (Stop error 0x0000000f). After much research it appeared that if I changed the ACPI setting to Standard PC it would reinstall fine, but now I can't place the computer on standby, I don't have a battery icon on the task bar, and my power button shuts the power off instead of putting it on either standby or hibernate. I know the hardware is ACPI compliant because it had the functionality when I bought it. I updated the BIOS without improvement. Any ideas???

First of all I wouldn't give 2 cents for a modern computer that can't
operate correctly using ACPI hardware management.

Anyway, if you have it setup up without then what I do is go into device
manager, show hidden devices and you should see a Legacy APM device which is
usually disabled. If you enable that device and restart you should get back
the options you mentioned.

FWIW,
Len

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> I have an HP Pavilion zt1000 laptop that came with XP home installed.
About six months or so after purchase I was unable to enter secure websites
or windows update. After an extensive volley of conversations with both HP
and MS rather drastic measures were suggested: HP has a set of recovery
disks that reformats the hard drive and reinstalls the original software; MS
suggested reinstalling XP. I purchased a copy of XP and reinstalled it, but
when it rebooted I would get the Blue Screen of Death (Stop error
0x0000000f). After much research it appeared that if I changed the ACPI
setting to Standard PC it would reinstall fine, but now I can't place the
computer on standby, I don't have a battery icon on the task bar, and my
power button shuts the power off instead of putting it on either standby or
hibernate. I know the hardware is ACPI compliant because it had the
functionality when I bought it. I updated the BIOS without improvement. Any
ideas???

Thanks, Len. I'm pretty sure it ran under ASPI when I first got it. Something then got screwed up and here I am. In any event, I tried finding the legacy APM in the hidden devices and couldn't see it. Any ideas?

device manage

click on view/show hidden device
click the "+" next to "non-plug and play drivers" to expan

if you don't see what Len is tallking about, then Len doesn't know what he's talking about.