You know what, I think you're right. Damn acronyms.
------ Brian On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Greg Sevart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) primarily deals with > power > states. I think you are mistaking it for AHCI (Advanced Host Controller > Interface), which does deal specifically with advanced features for SATA > drives. Enabling AHCI after an installation has already been completed does > cause a boot BSOD under Windows. There are ways to perform a switch without > a reinstallation though. > > Greg > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden > > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 6:31 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [H] acpi > > > > That's my understanding but it also involves disk interfaces. I think > > for > > hot swap features, not sure. > > > > I've gotten bitten by this twice. The most interesting was when I > > enabled > > ACPI not thinking and when I rebooted window's wouldn't boot (can't > > remember > > if it was a BSOD or a "no boot device found"). So I went back in to > > the > > BIOS and disabled ACPI but window's still refused to boot. Had to > > re-install. > > > > > > ------ > > Brian > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:29 AM, maccrawj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Drive issues from enabling/disabling ACPI? Am I forgetting some old > > > knowledge? > > > > > > ACPI is just modern APM, no? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Brian Weeden wrote: > > > > > >> ACPI is an advanced way for the OS to communicate with peripherials, > > >> notably > > >> drives. It's not required but does have some interesting features. > > >> > > >> Be careful though. If you install Windows on a system with the BIOS > > set > > >> to > > >> SATA or IDE communication with drives and then change it to ACPI > > it's > > >> likely > > >> that Windows will not boot. That's because the driver used to read > > from > > >> the > > >> hard disk is different. So if you are planning on using ACPI (which > > does > > >> have some benefits) then turn it on in the BIOS before installin > > windows. > > >> > > >> If you're doing it on a system that already has Windows installed, > > make > > >> sure > > >> you install the drivers in windows BEFORE turning on ACPI in the > > BIOS. > > >> > > >> > > >
