BIOS Updates forum

Hi,

I have a AZZA 5VMX socket 7 motherboard, from what I've seen on the web this motherboard supports acpi but I dont have any option in bios :-\, windows 2000 & XP detects my pc as a standart pc, I've already tried 2 different bios, one from 1999 and another from 2000 none of them have any option about acpi.


Any suggestions?

I have already tried forcing acpi during windows 2000 / XP installation and the computer "freezes".

Strange... it's not even a hidden option.

Perhaps it gets enabled when you disable APM. Have you tried that?

going to try disabling APM.

this is what I see when computer boots up

AWARD MODULAR BIOS V4.51PG
.....
07/04/2000 W83877 for 5VMX (Y2K READY)
.....
(and at the bottom)
07/04/2000-VP3-586B-W877-2A5LEP8AC-00

Or it simply does not support ACPI. Many PC Chips boards (and some other too) were "ACPI Ready" according to the manual but there was no ACPI support in BIOS.

and as I can see it can't be added :-\
I edited my last post with some codes that I see when the computer boots up maybe they can give some info that I'm not seeing :-\

but more strange is that the manual have some referencies about ACPI, this is in the features of the motherboard, and in the bios section of the manual is a image where I can see a option that I dont have in the PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION.

PNP OS Installed : No
Resources Controlled By : Manual
Reset Configuration Data : Disabled
ACPI I/O Device Node : Enabled <- I dont have this option despite it is in the manual!

Does that image have a BIOS ID at the top of the window ?