please help.
i moved my old hard drives with win98 to my new computer while i wait for new hard disk to arrive. it all worked, but somehow, in the course of endless rebooting to sort out a modem driver / PnP problem, something seems to have gone wrong with the ACPI / power management stuff. Windows starts and gets to the password dialog, but then the monitor suddenly clicks and displays a message saying something about powering down in 5 secs (same as it does when the computer's shut down normally.) then, hitting Esc brings it back up (to a blank Desktop), and i can get the Task Manager (with nothing in it). ...and that's it -- Windoze hasn't loaded.
the monitor is a Viewsonic E70f, the motherboard is a GA-8IRXP, the graphics card is a Leadtek A170 GeForce MX420.
help! please! <g> i have no idea what to try. i've tried fiddling around with various power management / ACPI settings. it worked ok with the power management stuff on the BIOS set to the option that allows the OS to do it.
aarrgghh!
Brian
i moved my old hard drives with win98 to my new computer while i wait for new hard disk to arrive. it all worked, but somehow, in the course of endless rebooting to sort out a modem driver / PnP problem, something seems to have gone wrong with the ACPI / power management stuff. Windows starts and gets to the password dialog, but then the monitor suddenly clicks and displays a message saying something about powering down in 5 secs (same as it does when the computer's shut down normally.) then, hitting Esc brings it back up (to a blank Desktop), and i can get the Task Manager (with nothing in it). ...and that's it -- Windoze hasn't loaded.
the monitor is a Viewsonic E70f, the motherboard is a GA-8IRXP, the graphics card is a Leadtek A170 GeForce MX420.
help! please! <g> i have no idea what to try. i've tried fiddling around with various power management / ACPI settings. it worked ok with the power management stuff on the BIOS set to the option that allows the OS to do it.
aarrgghh!
Brian