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Problem
PurpleYouko:
Can you boot in safe mode? or can't you even get that far?
How about going into BIOS and resaving it?
Numsgil:
I think it's a problem with one of you're ram cards.
I managed to find this
--- Quote ---Q: I have 4 GB of memory and Windows NT will give an error message "Bios is not fully ACPI compliant." How do I fix this?
A: You will need to uninstall one RDRAM module and then install Windows NT 4.0. After you have completed the install of Windows NT you can re-install the RDRAM module.
--- End quote ---
shvarz:
PY: No, can't get into safe mode either. What do you mean by resaving bios? Flashing it again? I'm gonna try that.
Nums: Thanks for looking, but that's not relevant at all. First, it is a different MB, second - different kind of RAM and third - the described problem occurs during installation, mine is after crash of a working system.
Some people say it may be a power supply going bad. So visited a local Fry's, left 400 bucks there and left with a new mobo+CPU and with a new power supply. Tha plan is: a) check if new power supply helps; B) check if re-flashing bios helps; c) if nothing helps install new MoBo. I'll update on situation later today.
vryko:
what are the settings for acpi in your bios?
probably your bios is reset by changing the battery so you have to reconfigure it.
shvarz:
Yeah, I reset the BIOS and re-configured it and tried tons of other stuff too. Have no idea what was wrong there. Bascally I got a whole new computer now, as I bought MB, CPU, memory and PSU. All for $450. So I have a pretty nice comp now. It was time to upgrade anyway.
Here is one more question: I have two drives, one main one and one just for storage. When I hooked them up asembling the new system, I mixed them up (set storage as master). As a result I installed windows on that drive. I cursed, and installed windows on the other drive (stupid me). Now during boot I am given a choice of which windows to load. How do I get rid of that and just keep one OS? Formatting drives is not an option, as the "storage" drive has lots of other stuff that I want to keep. But I can move stuff around and re-assign letters using Partition magic if that's gonna help me somehow.
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