Yes, the only ACPI component in my BIOS is set to S1&S3, so it is enabled.

- Jussi

"tino" wrote:
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> Check the BIOS settings for ACPI...are they on? acpi subcomponents are
> required....
>
>
>
> From: "JW" <nospam@no.spam>
> Subject: Re: Hyper-threading hangs OS loading
> Date: Saturday, December 30, 2006 8:58 AM
>
> Did you fdisk and reformat the old disk in the new machine before trying to
> install?
> Do you have the latest BIOS for your MOBO?
> I had no trouble installing Vista RC1 or RC2 on a HT system after doing the
> above.
>
> "Jussi Palo" <jpalo@community.nospam> wrote in message
> news:6B6E5B1D-B96D-496D-AF19-E062B22D1AAF@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > This same freezing occurs on the first boot when installing Vista to a
> > clean
> > HD if I have HT enabled.
> >
> > The answer to your question is, yes, but on another machine, meaning that
> > on
> > my old computer (2.4 GHz HT) this very same installation installed and
> > worked
> > just fine. I actually moved the HD from old machine to new one, but this
> > is
> > not the problem in this case since Vista won't even start installing on
> > the
> > new machine.
> >
> > I also suspect this is a driver issue, but is it possible to load
> > motherboard/chipset drivers during the Vista install before the first
> > reboot?
> > I've done it with NT 4.0 and SCSI drivers, but are we talking about more
> > fundamental drivers here?
> >
> > - Jussi
> >
> > "Michael O" wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> >> Did you install Vista with hyperthreading enabled?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Jussi Palo" <jpalo@community.nospam> wrote in message
> >> news:5C87E2B9-5A03-40CB-8E5D-43F46F397655@microsoft.com...
> >> > Hi,
> >> > having experienced this problem already on Beta 1 version I now finally
> >> > sat
> >> > down and begun tweaking my BIOS settings on my RTM Vista Ultimate. It
> >> > turned
> >> > out that whenever I have Hyper-threading enabled in BIOS Vista hangs on
> >> > boot,
> >> > on the screen where you see the progress bar (and the nice invisible
> >> > Vista
> >> > logo). The progress bar just freezes.
> >> >
> >> > I can boot the system in Safe Mode just fine and also if I disable HT
> >> > in
> >> > BIOS. I've run Windows Update and there are nothing to update. I also
> >> > cannot
> >> > find anything on this from on the net, nor on Intel, AOpen, etc. sites.
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas on what I should do to get Vista working with HT enabled?
> >> >
> >> > Here are the specs, please let me know if you need more details.
> >> >
> >> > Computer: AOpen XC Cube EZ915
> >> > CPU: Intel P4 3.0 GHz HT (775)
> >> > MB: based on Intel 915G
> >> > RAM: 2 x 512 MB Kingston 3200 (removing one didn't make any difference)
> >> > BIOS: 1.11 (newest, from early 2005)
> >> > More details:
> >> > [url]http://xc.aopen.com.tw/Cube-m-specification%20.aspx?Auno=13[/url]
> >> >
> >>
> >>
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