Acpitbl.dat Problem

[Phil C.]

Hi. I have a WinXp Pro sp2 computer. Normally I have it set to kick in a
password
protected scrensaver at 15minutes, and then I have the monitor set to power
save after one hour.
In the last week, I've had intermittent problems resuming from monitor power
save, or even if I turn that off, when I login to the login screen, the
screen will go blue, and the keyboard will
not affect input, though I can move my mouse. The whole system is hung, and
I have to do a hard reboot. I was on the phone troubleshooting with
Microsoft, and they had me boot into safe mode, except that safe mode hung
permanently at loading ...\system32\acpitbl.dat
and would not go further.
Since I've been having acpi related issues, this sounds consistent. I
checked the \system32 folder, and there is no acpitbl.dat file there at all.
I looked in my slipstreamed WinXp Sp2 cd i386, and there is not a compressed
file by
that name there either.
A google search finds some other people having the same problem, even in
Win2003 server systems, but no one has solutions, and I can't figure out
where the file comes from.
I suspect it is generated when the original Xp setup runs and figures out
the acpi parameters for the particular motherboard.

Does anyone know about it, and how to regenerate or get it?
I suspect I have to do an in-place repair.

Thanks,

Phil

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Probably OT for this group but I'd like to access the ACPI functions from a
VB program. I want to set a wakeup call from my software to start it at a
given time. Is there a group that deals with this? Many of the Microsoft
groups I have looked at are empty.

N

 

[Aquillar]

Solution

Encountered the same problem under Win2k3 Server Standard with a RAID 1 array.

Solution was to break the array by removing a hard drive (The RAID status then changes to Degraded), then boot the OS. Splash screen goes away in normal time. Log in, rebuild your array with it's software. Done.