Tuesday, 8 January 2013

ACPI and Windows 7/Windows Installation Disc

This will be a quick one, if you find that for some reason, a known-working installation of Windows 7 on a known-working hard drive won't actually boot properly, or if you're attempting to install Windows 7 and you get caught on an infinite loop with a message screen that looks like this (and no matter what you do, you always come back  to it):

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l56/ASOBNOFX/02_06.png

Head into your BIOS and look for the option for ACPI. Enable it, I don't exactly know why, but Windows 7 seems to require it to function. Here's further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface



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