How do I disable/enable ACPI on my machine during installation?
John Savill
April 5, 2000
1 Min Read
A. We saw in Q. How can I specify an alternate HAL during Windows2000 installation? how to manually select an alternate HAL duringinstallation but this can also be done via modifying a file during installation.
After the text-mode phase of setup completes but before the GUI stage boot into an alternate installation (or via a boot disk/CD)
Remote the read-only, hidden and system flags from the txtsetup.sif file
C:> attrib c:txtsetup.sif -r -s -h
Edit the txtsetup.sif file and search for ACPIEnable=
To force ACPI to be enabled change to
ACPIEnable=1
To force ACPI to be disabled change to
ACPIEnable=0Save the file
Reapply the attributes
C:> attrib c:txtsetup.sif +r +s +h
Continue with the Windows 2000 setup wizard
You can also press F7 during installation to load a non ACPI HAL.
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