I don't know where to look for that ACPI you are talking about.
All power management is disabled, and it's not that you wait 20min before it happens, but more like max 1min average 20sec
3A6LF Via Apollo Pro (691/596) Chipset with Award BIOS v4.60
I've seen something like that on my DTK FortisPro TOP-5A notebook. I installed Windows ME. It ran but sometimes locked-up, most often when opening the battery status window. So I removed that and installed Windows 98SE - it works without any problems - so in my case, there was an incompatibility between Windows ME and the BIOS.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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I just found the BIOS page also, and was going to post the link but luckily discovered the second page to this thread beforehand.
If you have not already flashed an updated BIOS, do do as AJZ suggests and check for any 8GB limiting jumper on the HDD. If this is limiting the BIOS detection, you may find that when this is corrected, your existing BIOS may detect the full size, without an update. An update is associated with some risk; no need to update means no risk.
All power management is disabled? You mean in the BIOS? Windows also has a power management section, which can either be accessed through Control Panel, or through the Screen Savers tab on your Display settings (in Control Panel). This is at least on the versions of Windows which I am used to. If these are enabled then probably set all values to Never for now, so things never power down, even set the screen saver to None for now. Then if things improve you can enable the screen saver, and other items one by one if you wish until you hit on the culprit.
If you have not already flashed an updated BIOS, do do as AJZ suggests and check for any 8GB limiting jumper on the HDD. If this is limiting the BIOS detection, you may find that when this is corrected, your existing BIOS may detect the full size, without an update. An update is associated with some risk; no need to update means no risk.
All power management is disabled? You mean in the BIOS? Windows also has a power management section, which can either be accessed through Control Panel, or through the Screen Savers tab on your Display settings (in Control Panel). This is at least on the versions of Windows which I am used to. If these are enabled then probably set all values to Never for now, so things never power down, even set the screen saver to None for now. Then if things improve you can enable the screen saver, and other items one by one if you wish until you hit on the culprit.
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There is no such jumper, it's set fine, the motherboard just can't have more then 8GBRitchie wrote:I just found the BIOS page also, and was going to post the link but luckily discovered the second page to this thread beforehand.
If you have not already flashed an updated BIOS, do do as AJZ suggests and check for any 8GB limiting jumper on the HDD. If this is limiting the BIOS detection, you may find that when this is corrected, your existing BIOS may detect the full size, without an update. An update is associated with some risk; no need to update means no risk.
All power management is disabled? You mean in the BIOS? Windows also has a power management section, which can either be accessed through Control Panel, or through the Screen Savers tab on your Display settings (in Control Panel). This is at least on the versions of Windows which I am used to. If these are enabled then probably set all values to Never for now, so things never power down, even set the screen saver to None for now. Then if things improve you can enable the screen saver, and other items one by one if you wish until you hit on the culprit.
All is allready disabled
My mother forced met to bring the computer to a specialist for evaluation. They look if it's worth the time to fix.
Anyway, if I get it back untouched, I do have a win98 cd, but only first edition..
