is there workaround the your bios not acpi complia

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.

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

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. -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
"Noah Body" wrote in message

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.

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


On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:45:55 -0800, "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

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.

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
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 02:43:58 -0000, "Zack Whittaker \(R2 Mentor\)" wrote:

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

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,,,,,,
"Noah Body" wrote:

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


On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:45:55 -0800, "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" andred25@hotmail.com> wrote:
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.