Computer Help

[20ESGUY]

Anybody familiar with the ACPI settings on HP Pavilion notebooks. I'm trying to revert windows XP to win98 and keep getting an ACPI error on cold boot and warm boot. I've got all the drivers loaded and checked the settings in the bios, everything seems to be installed correctly and using the right resources. I just can't seem to get rid of the ACPI blue screen error. If any of yall know something I could try I'd appriecate it.

 

[sttl013]

Man, I have never had a successful "revert" for an OS, especially when it comes to XP. Your best bet would be to backup all your important info and do a clean install.
There's just so much registry junk that gets changed, not to mention you're possibly trying to revert from NTFS to FAT32.

 

[20ESGUY]

This is true...I did a clean install and re-partitioned the drive to FAT32 instead of the NTFS system, thats what's so argravating about the whole deal. I'm not great at hardware and from what I've gathered about ACPI it's basicly the BIOS's link to the Driver database. Basicly it's being a pita and I'm coming up waaay to quick on the deadline of when I need it done.

 

[Protege01MP3]

i definitely agree... just bite the bullet and format... it sucks.. but we all have to do it once in a while... u have any type of backup drive? if so use it... but other than that... reverts suck ass.. as was mentioned above.. never a successful revert

anyway... good luck
(p.s. why r u trying to revert to 98?? maybe theres a way around the problem... a solution in which you would be able to stick w/ xp.. unless of course.. your just a big 98 fan)

 

[20ESGUY]

Like i said before i did a clean install, you can't run win98 on top of win XP because of the differences in file systems. The only reason i was trying to load 98 is because a program that my boss wanted loaded won't run in XP it has to use the ole and sql database from 95-98. That was sprung on me after i ordered the computer for a new vibration analysis program. It got to be too much of a headache...so i just loaded XP back up and told my boss too bad....there's something with the bios on the HP that won't pickup 98 and use the correct memory ranges. Anyways thanks for the advice.

 

[Kooldino]

Make sure you tried win98SE, not win98. Original Win98 can't properly use more than 256MB of RAM.

If you really want, run a dual boot.