windows XP Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)

maxwelltfmaxwelltf
edited January 2009 in Science & Tech
It seems there may be a problem with my desktop PC. After doing a windows XP repair I noticed that the PC no long shutdowns completely from the OS, but instead gives the "Safe to turn off your computer" message. Looking under device manager, under Computer, I see there are two listings shown: "ACPI" and Standard PC. I'm not certain, but I dont think there are supposed to be two of them there. My PC is ACPI compliant. Interesting, by examining these within device manager, it appears that one can disable or uninstall the ACPI entry (at least the option to do so appears available) while there is no such option for the standard PC entry. This would seem consistent since I feel the PC is actually operating with the standard PC HAL.

The question is: how do I get this computer to operate on the ACPI layer and shutdown completely from the OS?

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2009
    ACPI needs to be the lone entry.
  • maxwelltfmaxwelltf
    edited January 2009
    how do I make that change? I'm trying to do some research online, but haven't found exactly how to go about it.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2009
    You should be able to uninstall the Standard PC HAL like any other device in the device manager. If not, remove the ACPI HAL and update the driver for the Standard PC HAL; ACPI will be an option.

    Just think of the HAL like any other hardware device.
  • maxwelltfmaxwelltf
    edited January 2009
    Thrax wrote:
    You should be able to uninstall the Standard PC HAL like any other device in the device manager. If not, remove the ACPI HAL and update the driver for the Standard PC HAL; ACPI will be an option.

    Just think of the HAL like any other hardware device.

    I disabled the ACPI and tried to update the driver for the Standard PC, referring it back to the windows XP install CD, etc, and it does not find a better driver, nor offers ACPI as an option. Am I going about it incorrectly?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2009
    You don't have choices like these?
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  • maxwelltfmaxwelltf
    edited January 2009
    I see. Yes, similar to those. However the Standard PC is still listed and there is not an option to uninstall or disable. ??
  • maxwelltfmaxwelltf
    edited January 2009
    maxwelltf wrote:
    I see. Yes, similar to those. However the Standard PC is still listed and there is not an option to uninstall or disable. ??

    I did update the driver and rebooted and it appeared to be running off of the APCI entry and not the Standard PC entry, since it now gives me the option to disable the standard PC but not the APCI. This was the objective. And the PC now shuts down normally.

    Very cool.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2009
    :) good.
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