Re: OT:Re: Sony VAIO and laptop workstations in general

[Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com>]

be careful though. I think I read that once you do that you can't go back 
without reinstalling windows. ACPI manages a lot of stuff that laptops 
care 
about, like sleep modes, waking, battery monitoring and charging, disk 
spin 
down, CPU speed step, screen brightness, temperature/fans, etc. When ACPI 
was new people had that stuff in both modes in the BIOS, although much 
more 
is possible with ACPI. Now that ACPI has been the required default for a 
few years, the "old" code in the BIOS may have fallen into neglect, and 
your laptop might not work very much like a laptop anymore if you turn 
ACPI 
off. You might not care if you just plug it in all the time and use it 
like 
a desktop.
kim

At 04:43 PM 8/14/2002, Clifford Novey wrote:
>Under Windows 2000 you select ACPI in the device manager- update drivers-
>choose from list- pick Standard PC- then the computer stops using ACPI,
>re-detects ALL of your hardware and spreads the IRQs out quite nicely. 
>WinXP
>may also work this way- Steinberg and RME both have pages on the topic.
>
>Cliff

______________________________________________________________________
Kim Flint                     | Looper's Delight
kflint@loopers-delight.com    | http://www.loopers-delight.com