hal driver

[stephen crawford]

has anyone ever changed the "standard pc" hal driver to a acpi compliant
driver to enable automatic power off on shutdown with xp sp1
regards
steve

 

[Randy Byrne]

Steve,

To enable your non-acpi system to shutdown:

1. Click Start, click Run, type powercfg.cpl, and then click OK.
2. Click the APM tab.
3. Check "Enable Advanced Power Management Support".
4. Click Apply.
5. Click OK.

Hope this helps.

Randy Byrne
JAHP

 

[Randy Byrne]

Here is a link for shut down issues.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/shutdown_issues_in_xp.htm

 

[stephen crawford]

thanks but have no apm tab only hibernate

Here is a link for shut down issues.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/shutdown_issues_in_xp.htm

 

[Randy Byrne]

Hmm...

Shutdown requires at least APM 1.2 to work. perhaps you motherboard doesn't support
the shutdown function. Or it uses a proprietary shutdown method that requires a
driver of some sort.

What make/model motherboard is it?

 

[R. McCarty]

HAL Change over is only supported from ACPI to Standard PC
(APM). You cannot switch from APM to ACPI without doing an
In place or "Repair" install. You'll need to Press F5 to trigger setup
to display the HAL choices, which you can select preventing BIOS
from controlling XP's HAL selection.

 

[stephen crawford]

m/board gigabyte GA-7ZM acpi ready or so it says on box
s

 

[stephen crawford]

ive got standard pc in device manager but no apm tab in power control and i
get its now safe to turn off computer
then i have to push power button as wont shutdown auto
s

 

[Randy Byrne]

From what I have been able to gather. This motherboard should work "IF" you have the
latest bios update. Older bios seemed to have issues with acpi.

Good luck!

Randy Byrne
JAHP

 

[R. McCarty]

Then what you have to do is add the APM device driver to your
system. You have to use the Add Hardware applet in Control
Panel, do not scan - but select the driver manually. It's located in
the System devices category.
Install the driver, Reboot and then the APM (Tab) should appear
in Power Management.

 

[stephen crawford]

thanks ...the update bios for this only covers one issue that relates to
correct prosessor regocnition ithink its def
the fact xp hasnt reconised that pc is acpi compatable
s

 

[Alex Nichol]

has anyone ever changed the "standard pc" hal driver to a acpi compliant
driver to enable automatic power off on shutdown with xp sp1

If it has installed without ACPI it will have installed APM instead; but
left it not enabled. Look in Power Options for an APM page and if found
check 'Enable APM'. That will support the power off