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Willy
I've an HP XE793 PC that has Win ME on it. I'm attempting to upgrade to Win
XP but after it goes through copying the XP installation files and auto
reboots to install XP, a blue screen comes up telling me the PC has been
shutdown to protect it cause the BIOS is not ACPI Compliant. And to
contact vendor for updated BIOS of which they have none.
I search for a KB article
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314830&Product=winx
p ) on this and found one that says:
"RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, contact the manufacturer of your computer to
obtain a BIOS that is fully ACPI compliant.
To work around this behavior, manually install the Standard PC hardware
abstraction layer (HAL):
1.. Restart the computer to restart Setup.
2.. When Setup starts again, press F7 (not F6) when you see the "Press F6
if you need to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver" screen.
Windows automatically disables the installation of the ACPI HAL and installs
the Standard PC HAL. "
This is where I'm confused as I never see a press F6 in setup. I can get
into BIOS by pressing F1 during startup. Any ideas to help or un-confuse
me?
XP but after it goes through copying the XP installation files and auto
reboots to install XP, a blue screen comes up telling me the PC has been
shutdown to protect it cause the BIOS is not ACPI Compliant. And to
contact vendor for updated BIOS of which they have none.
I search for a KB article
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314830&Product=winx
p ) on this and found one that says:
"RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, contact the manufacturer of your computer to
obtain a BIOS that is fully ACPI compliant.
To work around this behavior, manually install the Standard PC hardware
abstraction layer (HAL):
1.. Restart the computer to restart Setup.
2.. When Setup starts again, press F7 (not F6) when you see the "Press F6
if you need to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver" screen.
Windows automatically disables the installation of the ACPI HAL and installs
the Standard PC HAL. "
This is where I'm confused as I never see a press F6 in setup. I can get
into BIOS by pressing F1 during startup. Any ideas to help or un-confuse
me?