Vista - VISTA installation load failure - BIOS is not ACPI compatible

Hi, i tried to install Windows VISTA Beta 2, on my home PC, but immediatly
after booting from intallation DVD, just after installation environment
loaded it's files i got the following error message:

Info: "Windows failed to load because the firmware (BIOS) is not ACPI
compatible"
Status: 0xc0000225

I have checked characteristics of my motherboard (it was produced in 2001,
but i'm sure that it supports ACPI) - here it's specification, which approves
ACPI compatible.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/ch...eries/p4x266a/

Anyone got the same problem? Could you please specify what certainly is not
supported by my motherboard and advise some solving of the problem? May be
BIOS reflash would help or my computer is absolutely not compatible with
VISTA?

Thanks for any help!

may be acpi compat, but did you turn it on in the bios. check the manual.



mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com



"GoldRunner" <GoldRunner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C83147B8-D121-48BB-AD5B-D0EDBDDE49B3@microsoft.com...
Hi, i tried to install Windows VISTA Beta 2, on my home PC, but immediatly
after booting from intallation DVD, just after installation environment
loaded it's files i got the following error message:

Info: "Windows failed to load because the firmware (BIOS) is not ACPI
compatible"
Status: 0xc0000225

I have checked characteristics of my motherboard (it was produced in 2001,
but i'm sure that it supports ACPI) - here it's specification, which approves
ACPI compatible.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/ch...eries/p4x266a/

Anyone got the same problem? Could you please specify what certainly is not
supported by my motherboard and advise some solving of the problem? May be
BIOS reflash would help or my computer is absolutely not compatible with
VISTA?

Thanks for any help!

How would you do that?

"mikeyhsd" wrote:

> may be acpi compat, but did you turn it on in the bios. check the manual.
>
>
>
> mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com
>
>
>
> "GoldRunner" <GoldRunner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C83147B8-D121-48BB-AD5B-D0EDBDDE49B3@microsoft.com...
> Hi, i tried to install Windows VISTA Beta 2, on my home PC, but immediatly
> after booting from intallation DVD, just after installation environment
> loaded it's files i got the following error message:
>
> Info: "Windows failed to load because the firmware (BIOS) is not ACPI
> compatible"
> Status: 0xc0000225
>
> I have checked characteristics of my motherboard (it was produced in 2001,
> but i'm sure that it supports ACPI) - here it's specification, which approves
> ACPI compatible.
>
> http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/ch...eries/p4x266a/
>
> Anyone got the same problem? Could you please specify what certainly is not
> supported by my motherboard and advise some solving of the problem? May be
> BIOS reflash would help or my computer is absolutely not compatible with
> VISTA?
>
> Thanks for any help!

Hi, thank you for help! I fixed this issue - the problem was really in BIOS
option: just ACPI was turned off in BIOS... i truned it on and installation
started! :-)

"mikeyhsd" wrote:

> may be acpi compat, but did you turn it on in the bios. check the manual.
>
>
>
> mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com
>
>
>
> "GoldRunner" <GoldRunner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C83147B8-D121-48BB-AD5B-D0EDBDDE49B3@microsoft.com...
> Hi, i tried to install Windows VISTA Beta 2, on my home PC, but immediatly
> after booting from intallation DVD, just after installation environment
> loaded it's files i got the following error message:
>
> Info: "Windows failed to load because the firmware (BIOS) is not ACPI
> compatible"
> Status: 0xc0000225
>
> I have checked characteristics of my motherboard (it was produced in 2001,
> but i'm sure that it supports ACPI) - here it's specification, which approves
> ACPI compatible.
>
> http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/ch...eries/p4x266a/
>
> Anyone got the same problem? Could you please specify what certainly is not
> supported by my motherboard and advise some solving of the problem? May be
> BIOS reflash would help or my computer is absolutely not compatible with
> VISTA?
>
> Thanks for any help!

"GoldRunner" wrote:

> Hi, thank you for help! I fixed this issue - the problem was really in BIOS
> option: just ACPI was turned off in BIOS... i truned it on and installation
> started! :-)
>
> "mikeyhsd" wrote:
>
> > may be acpi compat, but did you turn it on in the bios. check the manual.
> >
> >
> >
> > mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com
> >
> >
> >
> > "GoldRunner" <GoldRunner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C83147B8-D121-48BB-AD5B-D0EDBDDE49B3@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, i tried to install Windows VISTA Beta 2, on my home PC, but immediatly
> > after booting from intallation DVD, just after installation environment
> > loaded it's files i got the following error message:
> >
> > Info: "Windows failed to load because the firmware (BIOS) is not ACPI
> > compatible"
> > Status: 0xc0000225
> >
> > I have checked characteristics of my motherboard (it was produced in 2001,
> > but i'm sure that it supports ACPI) - here it's specification, which approves
> > ACPI compatible.
> >
> > http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/ch...eries/p4x266a/
> >
> > Anyone got the same problem? Could you please specify what certainly is not
> > supported by my motherboard and advise some solving of the problem? May be
> > BIOS reflash would help or my computer is absolutely not compatible with
> > VISTA?
> >
> > Thanks for any help!