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.

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" <(E-Mail Removed)> 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.
>

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" <(E-Mail Removed)> 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

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" <(E-Mail Removed)> 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" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> 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
>
>