Is there a workaround for the "Your BIOS is not ACPI Compliant" BSOD during install?

[Zack Whittaker \(R2 Mentor\)]

Do you think it'll work if you uninstall or "unflash" the BIOS back to the
previous version?

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[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

You are using an operating system that is not even officially supported, OS
X, my recommendation would be to format that system and install only Linux
and Windows.
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[Noah Body]

I'm running the most recent BIOS for my notebook and I'm not sure why
Vista is complaining since XP, OS X, and SUSE all work just fine
(ACPI).

I know under XP you can hold down a key to force the install not to
install the ACPI HAL but that doesn't seem to work with Vista.

 

[Noah Body]

Andre,

Thanks for the advice, but OS X works too well for me to remove it. In
fact, Vista is going to have to be something really amazing to come
close to the stability and usability of OS X. If Apple would release
OS X for all Intel machines I would drop MS in a second. Yes, OS X is
that good....

Stuff I find interesting:

-Vista complains about ACPI in the BIOS yet OS X works pretty well.

-Aero Glass won't run on 90% of the Graphic Cards including my
notebook's yet CI and QE both work fine.

Its hard not to think of Microsoft as either poor programmers or just
bold face liars.


-N

 

[Noah Body]

Zack,

Thanks for the reply. I don't believe an older version of the BIOS
will fix the problem. I had a pm from another person who read my
message and suggested replacing halacpi.dll and halmacpi.dll which I
might try.

Thanks again,
-P

 

[Guest]

I am also having the same issue on my gateway laptop MN350WVN. So far no
solution. Windows XP works fine on my laptop, but when I tried to install
Vista, I too got the same error just during the beginning of the
installation.(ACPI Compliant). If you find a solution please post it here,
that would really help me.
Thanks,
Sri,,,,,,