Bumping ACPI can result in much pain and suffering for some chipsets running under Windows 2000 and can result in the machine becoming non responsive and resulting in the reinstall of Windows 2000. Under 6 systems tested, only 1 was very happy with the change to an ACPI-less state.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corysia Taware [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 3:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] rebooting
>
>
> 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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