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DougB
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« Reply #1 on: 2009.01.09, 10:08:54 » |
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There are conflicting reports, about AMD and ACPI. Some say that it doesn't work, and others say that it does, once you find the proper switches. The system should work fine, in single processor mode, without ACPI. It is also a requirement, to use either the UNI, or SMP kernel (you have the W4 kernel, according to your post), if you use ACPI (although I have never heard of anyone who has actually had a problem with it).
One problem, that I had, was that the RC6a installer put the line: EARLYMEMINIT=TRUE into CONFIG.SYS. While it was there, my system had some sort of background process, that was eating up roughly 30% of the CPU cycles (two, very different systems). Once I got rid of that line, everything seems to be normal.
The lines, in CONFIG.SYS, for APM, and ACPI, are: ======================== REM [APM section REM DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\APM.SYS REM DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VAPM.SYS REM RUN=C:\OS2\APMDAEMN.EXE REM PSD=OS2APIC.PSD PSD=ACPI.PSD /SMP /PIC BASEDEV=APM.ADD RUN=C:\OS2\ACPIDAEMON.EXE ======================== The REMed lines are for the older APM, which may work for you. PSD=OS2APIC.PSD is the OLD way to run multiple processors, and that works fine on my two, very different, SMP systems. The last three lines are for ACPI. The PSD line is what works with my new Asus M3A78-EM motherboard, with a triple core AMD processor, but the REMed lines also work fine (after REMing the other three lines, of course).
Okay, now to your VISTA problem. How did you shrink the VISTA partition? When i did that, I had to use the VISTA tools to do it (VISTA has that tool built in). Then, I was able to add new partitions for eCS, using LVM.EXE. MiniLVM wouldn't touch it, and DFSEE still doesn't like the way that the windows partitions are made, but it works.
I suspect, that you will need to reinstall VISTA, or, restore a backup, if you have one. I would guess, that something in VISTA has been corrupted, or (more likely), It thinks you have installed it onto a different machine, and it isn't going to let you do that, in which case, restore may not work either.
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