On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 12:35, Simon Bell wrote: > Ive recently installed fedora core 1 onto an old desktop machine. It has an > Abit BP6 motherboard with 2 533 celeron cpu's in it. According to the BIOS > and manual, it is ACPI enabled, but when i enable it in grub.conf i get an > error saying my bios is to old and i should use acpi=force > > Im just wondering what is actually wrong with my acpi bios? I was using > power management on windows on this machine with no problems at all. Is it > actually safe to enable acpi with the force option? I get the same thing and was wondering the same thing about mine, which is a Tabor motherboard from Gateway, Performance 750 PIII from 2000. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "It's funny until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious!"
