ACPI and mobos

[gerald_weigel]

I was researching a new mobo, and several of the reviews said I should disable ACPI, but I have it enabled on my pc now and it runs fine. What gives?

I'm running an ECS K7S5A V3.X
256 Mb ram
120Gb Maxtor HDD
PNY GF4 Ti 4200 128Mb
1.33 GHz Athalon

[Peter M]

There is no ACTUAL reason for disabling ACPI ... except a buggy implementation of ACPI on the BIOS side. This might have been true in the early days of this mainboard, but now, more than two years and many BIOS updates later, one may expect all this to be sorted.

In fact, modern operating systems run far better when they have the ACPI interface into BIOS. This lets the operating system steer power management and control other fine detail of the mainboard in a much more organized manner.