HELP!! Asus A7V8X-X - XP Install fails with ACPI problem???

[Ohaya]

Hi,

We just installed a new Asus A7V8X-X motherboard, and when I tried to
install Windows XP Home, I am getting a "black screen" with a STOP ERROR
that says that the "BIOS is not fully ACPI compliant".

The board came with BIOS 1007, so I flashed it to 1008 from the ASUS
website, which went ok, but when I tried installing XP, I again got the
same STOP error.

The BIOS SAYS that it's an "ACPI BIOS", so does anyone know why this
won't install?

Please help if you can!!

Thanks,
Jim

 

[Creeping Stone]

Hi,

We just installed a new Asus A7V8X-X motherboard, and when I tried to
install Windows XP Home, I am getting a "black screen" with a STOP ERROR
that says that the "BIOS is not fully ACPI compliant".

The board came with BIOS 1007, so I flashed it to 1008 from the ASUS
website, which went ok, but when I tried installing XP, I again got the
same STOP error.

The BIOS SAYS that it's an "ACPI BIOS", so does anyone know why this
won't install?

Please help if you can!!

Thanks,
Jim

Bios settings are in a section at the end of the manual or you can cycle
through them sequentialy after boot. -reading red guide text (at the side
of the bios screen readout)

In a hurry - I would just change between PIC and APIC mode.
No idea what XP is taking exception to - there is a version compliency
setting for pci somewhere.. i think...

gl,

 

[Ohaya]

Hi,

We just installed a new Asus A7V8X-X motherboard, and when I tried to
install Windows XP Home, I am getting a "black screen" with a STOP ERROR
that says that the "BIOS is not fully ACPI compliant".

The board came with BIOS 1007, so I flashed it to 1008 from the ASUS
website, which went ok, but when I tried installing XP, I again got the
same STOP error.

The BIOS SAYS that it's an "ACPI BIOS", so does anyone know why this
won't install?

Please help if you can!!

Thanks,
Jim

Bios settings are in a section at the end of the manual or you can cycle
through them sequentialy after boot. -reading red guide text (at the side
of the bios screen readout)

In a hurry - I would just change between PIC and APIC mode.
No idea what XP is taking exception to - there is a version compliency
setting for pci somewhere.. i think...

gl,

Hi All,

I'm posting this, to help anyone who ever runs into this problem in the
future.

I think I've figured out my problem. I'm not 100% sure yet, as the install
is running right now, but I believe that the problem was that I had the BIOS
setting for memory speed set to the default "By SPD".

I didn't mention it in my earlier post, but all along, I've been getting
strange errors installing XP from CD. I'd get a error saying that files
were corrupted. Each time, it'd be a different file.

Once in awhile, I'd get through that, but then get the ACPI STOP error.

Sometimes, I'd get some other various STOP errors.

As I mentioned, I'd done a standalone memory test, as I'd learned long time
ago that can cause strange problems. But, the memory test worked.

Just out of desparation tonight, I tried setting the memory speed in the
BIOS to 233, and to my utter amazement, it got through reading the CD and
the install seems to be running.

I'm going to let the install finish, just to make sure, and then I'm going
to start all over again, setting the BIOS to default first, and changing
only the memory speed, as I want to make sure that I might not've set some
other things along the way that I can't remember.

I'll post back, but the install is at the "Installing Start menu" step
already, so it looks good...

So the moral of the story is "watch out for memory problems", and don't
always necessarily trust the memory tests...

 

[R45six]

I've ordered an A7V8X-X, Athlon XP2700 and 512Mb 2700 DDR ram,
which should arrive this week hopefully.

Having read this thread I wondered if there's any problems installing,
with a preinstalled hard drive / os ?
I really don't want to have to install everything again. (software anyway)
I don't mind adding bits of hardware one at a time so it sorts it's IRQs
etc.

 

[Ohaya]

I've ordered an A7V8X-X, Athlon XP2700 and 512Mb 2700 DDR ram,
which should arrive this week hopefully.

Having read this thread I wondered if there's any problems installing,
with a preinstalled hard drive / os ?
I really don't want to have to install everything again. (software anyway)
I don't mind adding bits of hardware one at a time so it sorts it's IRQs
etc.

R45,

If you've seen my earlier post, the issue that I ran into turned out not
to really be an ACPI problem, but appears to be a case of having to set
the memory speed in the BIOS, rather than letting it automatically
detect the memory speed.

BTW, if your pre-installed OS is NT4, Win2K or XP, I think that your
expectation that you'd just be able to swap in the A7V8X-X or any other
motherboard may not be met, since those OS's have a HAL (hardware
abstraction layer) that is tied to the hardware configuration when the
OS was installed.

 

[R45six]

BTW, if your pre-installed OS is NT4, Win2K or XP, I think that your

expectation that you'd just be able to swap in the A7V8X-X or any other
motherboard may not be met, since those OS's have a HAL (hardware
abstraction layer) that is tied to the hardware configuration when the
OS was installed.

Cheers for the info. I thought I'd search in the MS KB, found this
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316401

Keeping my fingers crossed the IDE thing doesn't require a new install.

 

[R45six]

Cheers for the info. I thought I'd search in the MS KB, found this

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316401

I'm going from an AOpen AK73(A) with VIA KT133A chipset
http://english.aopen.com.tw/products/mb/AK73(A).htm
to the Asus A7V8X-X with nForce 2 400 chipset.

 

[R45six]

It worked without need to reinstall. Phew.
Had to call MS to reactivate XP though.

Thanks for the heads up.