Microsoft has a warning about changing your system from ACPI to Standard.
I'm not able to find the exactly Knowledge Base article now, but they warn
to make an emergency disk because it's possible that your system will not
boot if you change modes.
This isn't the article I was thinking of, but it's related:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q197/0/55.ASP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Bower" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:24 AM
Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] rebooting
> I can almost gaurantee that this is a problem with
> ACPI and your motherboard (which will use a VIA
> chipset). I had the same problem... and it drove me
> nuts... then one day it just stopped.
>
> Im not complaining, but im afraid that this means I
> cant really help you out!
>
> I have an abit VA6 I think, and a TNT2.
>
> Try www.viahardware.com for some help. Also try
> changing the ACPI driver in the hardware manager to
> "standard computer". You may need to fiddle with your
> bios also to get rid of ACPI, which basically shoves
> every device on one IRQ, which should work... but
> dosent for some!
>
> Good luck,
>
> Nathan
>
> --- Will Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Has anyone had any issues with your machine
> > rebooting while running java3D
> > stuff?
> >
> > I am running:
> > Win2K sp2
> > geforce II
> > jre 1.3_02
> > java3d 1.2.1 b1 (opengl)
> >
> > I'm going to upgrade the java3d, I was just
> > wondering if this was
> > happening to anyone else because I haven't noticed
> > mention of it.
> >
> > Will Holcomb
>
>
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