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

["Clifford Novey" <om@Om-Studios.com>]

Very true- I missed the part about laptops- I don't think I'd do it there-

I'm a very smart fellow- I just read the topic of the thread.

Anyone need a good deal on brain surgery? I'm your man.

Cliff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: OT:Re: Sony VAIO and laptop workstations in general


> 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
>
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