Re: Asus acpi problem
- From: Paul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 16:37:08 -0400
dont wrote:
I have a P2B setup that ceased working around November(?) due to a problem on booting up with XP Pro (after an automatic Windows update -- coincidence?). The computer had worked great since I built it in 1998. XP Pro had also worked great, which was intalled when it came out (when ever that was). I have seen various posts on the internet about old hardware and acpi issues, but the box worked fine until the update / re-boot.
In safe mode, the boot gets up to AGP440 and dies. The next entry in NTBTLOG indicates an acpi problem. No luck with a repair from the original XP Pro disk on the P2B.
So I bought an Asus Eee PC 4G XP with XP Home pre-installed. I removed the drive from the P2B setup, put it in an enclosure, hooked it up to the Eee, hit ESC on boot, and attempt to boot from the external drive -- same thing, dies on AGP440, and NTBTLOG indicates an acpi problem (no kidding / a.k.a. no shit).
Does anyone know how to load the Eee acpi drivers on the old disk in the enclosure? The disk that comes with the Eee only wants to install them on the SSD. The bios will not allow the external drive to be "C:". To run setup for acpi on the external drive, I believe it has to be booted up, which aint happenen (see above). I have tried moving drivers to the enclosure drive with no luck. I am obviously missing something important.
Does anyone have any ideas on this (besides throwing the old drive in Lake Michigan)?
To make it more interesting, the Eee requires at least SP2, so the original XP Pro disk will not work, although I do have another licenced copy with SP2 that starts up fine -- I just dont want to burn another licence to MS's fortune. Also, the original XP Pro disk is an upgrade disk, and asks for diskettes along the way to "prove" that you are upgrading -- I have all the diskettes, but if you are familiar with the Eee, that aint happenen either.
I am currently stuck. Help is appreciated.
TIA
DON
(I will probably be unavailable this weekend as far as e-mail goes. Happy Memorial Day !!!)
One thing I replaced on my board, is the CMOS battery. It should read
about 3V, if you check it with a multimeter (red lead to top of battery,
black lead to any grounded metal, such as screws on I/O connectors on
back of computer). This isn't likely to make any difference to your
problem, but it is something to check occasionally (once a year) with
an old computer. I've had two batteries go recently.
Since you've tried safe mode, and didn't get anywhere, I might reach
for a Knoppix or Ubuntu Linux LiveCD. Those are CD distros of Linux,
that don't need to be installed, in order to boot. You boot from
the CD, and the OS uses RAM to store temporary files.
Knoppix has various boot prompt options (called "cheat codes" by their
author), which allow disabling pesky features of a BIOS. Such as
disabling ACPI, if the BIOS has no ACPI support and so on. You can
watch the boot messages, as Knoppix (knopper.net) comes up, and I use
that to get some idea as to whether I'm dealing with a hardware
failure or not. I like to use the CD, when I'm overclocking,
and don't want to take a chance on corrupting my Windows install.
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes
With respect to downloads, the last releases of Knoppix have been
on DVD, and as such, I've not bothered to download them. You can
use one of the slightly older CDROM versions, which is still a
hefty 700MB download. The download is an ISO9660, and I use Nero
to burn/convert the ISO, to a bootable CD.
Paul
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