Naren Parker
Broken In
Hi Guys
I have a problem with the Standby option and Auto-Power off feature of my system. Mine is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ on an MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard with 1.5 GB RAM of which 128 MB is shared by the onboard ATi Radeon Xpress200 graphics chipset. I have two hard drives - a 120GB SATA on which Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 is loaded and a 40GB IDE drive.
The problem started when I had left DiskCleanup unattended to clean up the Compress Old Files option. During the process, there was a power outage. When I switched on the PC later, I got an error message that hal.dll was not found. Then I went to the Recovery Console and expanded the hal.dl_ file in the i386 folder on the Service Pack 2 CD. (I didnt have a slipstreamed version of SP3 then). The OS booted and started loading all the drivers. Everything seemed to work fine.
But the Standby option which was once functional has been grayed out. I dont find Advanced Power Management options in the Power Management applet in Control Panel. Also, the performance of the IDE hard drive has taken a hit. Videos stutter when I play from that hard-drive but there is no such problem with the SATA drive.
My device manager lists ACPI Uniprocessor PC and also Standard PC in the Computer section. I dont want to re-format the OS as I have many documents and tweaked programs.
So, any idea how to enable those features? Will disabling and re-enabling ACPI in the BIOS work? How do I get the HAL to recognize that I have an ACPI compliant PC? And what about the decrease in performance of the 40GB IDE drive?
Thanks all in advance.
I have a problem with the Standby option and Auto-Power off feature of my system. Mine is an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ on an MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard with 1.5 GB RAM of which 128 MB is shared by the onboard ATi Radeon Xpress200 graphics chipset. I have two hard drives - a 120GB SATA on which Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 is loaded and a 40GB IDE drive.
The problem started when I had left DiskCleanup unattended to clean up the Compress Old Files option. During the process, there was a power outage. When I switched on the PC later, I got an error message that hal.dll was not found. Then I went to the Recovery Console and expanded the hal.dl_ file in the i386 folder on the Service Pack 2 CD. (I didnt have a slipstreamed version of SP3 then). The OS booted and started loading all the drivers. Everything seemed to work fine.
But the Standby option which was once functional has been grayed out. I dont find Advanced Power Management options in the Power Management applet in Control Panel. Also, the performance of the IDE hard drive has taken a hit. Videos stutter when I play from that hard-drive but there is no such problem with the SATA drive.
My device manager lists ACPI Uniprocessor PC and also Standard PC in the Computer section. I dont want to re-format the OS as I have many documents and tweaked programs.
So, any idea how to enable those features? Will disabling and re-enabling ACPI in the BIOS work? How do I get the HAL to recognize that I have an ACPI compliant PC? And what about the decrease in performance of the 40GB IDE drive?
Thanks all in advance.
