when i was installing my vista on a firly old pc, i came across one of those bsod's. it told me to update my bios for some acpi problem, so i did. then i read somewhere that i would have to reinstall xp and select the acpi config when xp was starting up the installation. so i did that too. but after the first reboot i got the screen again after booting to vista installation so is there anyone else who has this problem? can it be solved. because im building a newer pc just i need a couple of parts and im good. and plus it wouls be cool to have vista on a fairly old pc here are the specs of that pc AMD Athlon 1.2GHZ 768mb RAM 40GB HDD ati (dont know the model) but it has 32mb (but dont need aero) windows xp professional version 2004 corp SP2
Vista should run on that PC, I have one running 1.2ghz with 768 ram with Vista.. Only Mine is an Intel..I don't think Vista Like AMD.. I would try A Vista Lite version. instead of a DVD version, get the CD version.. It is made for older PC's..
Yes i have the lite version but still doesnt work and im so pissed off. is there anyway to bypass that acpi check after reboot? or other ways to install vista?
I found this, at a support forum.. hope it helps.. I fixed this issue - the problem was really in BIOS > option: just ACPI was turned off in BIOS... i truned it on and installation > started!
I've had the same problem on an Asus P5N32-E SLI mobo. I fixed that by updating the BIOS to the latest version.
lol, thats what i did took me awhile to fiure out how to do it but i did it correctly. but still shows me acpi compliant. i contacted the motherboard make "Gigabyte" and all they told me was that there was no driver :s
yea i have dsl, but my internet for some reason is pretty slow. and yea i also have an xp setup disk? whats it for?
