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I cant install windows 7

  • 06-09-2010 5:07pm
    #1
    freeze4real
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭


    hi all,
    i have a PC that's custom built.
    according to my research its an old custom built PC.
    it was running on vista then i installed windows 7 on it.
    i re-installed vista to see it would run faster. which it did.
    so i tried re-installing windows 7 again and it didnt work.

    it kept giving me this message



      This computer is not compliant with the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) standard. Windows must be installed onto a computer that supports ACPI. Contact your computer manufacturer for a BIOS update or install Windows on an ACPI-compliant computer.

      when i first installed windows 7 it worked no hassles but now something is wrong.

      what should i do?

      thanks.





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        • #2
          Odaise Gaelach
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Odaise Gaelach


          What make and model of motherboard do you have?


        • #3
          freeze4real
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭freeze4real


          It's a matsonic model.

          MS9357E with 736mb if ram.


        • #4
          Odaise Gaelach
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Odaise Gaelach


          Are there any options in the motherboard's BIOS for ACPI, or for ACPI 2.0?


        • #5
          freeze4real
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭freeze4real


          When there is. But when I check disk manager there is meant to be a acpi setting but it's not there.


        • #6
          Odaise Gaelach
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Odaise Gaelach


          Did you mean "Device Manager" instead of "Disk Manager" by any chance?

          See if you can set any of the settings in your BIOS to enable ACPI or ACPI 2.0.


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        • #7
          freeze4real
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭freeze4real


          Sorry.
          I meant device manger.
          It's already set to accept ACPI setting.


        • #8
          Odaise Gaelach
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Odaise Gaelach


          I'm afraid the best guess I can give you is that sometime between you installing Vista the second time and attempting to re-install Windows 7, a setting in your BIOS got changed and it's preventing you from installing Windows 7. I can't really help you apart from that. Sorry. :(


        • #9
          freeze4real
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭freeze4real


          Thats what I'm doing now.
          Thanks for the help.


        • #10
          thebeatlebaby
          Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭thebeatlebaby


          YOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH RAM TO RUN WINDOWS 7!


        • #11
          thebeatlebaby
          Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭thebeatlebaby


          you need at least 1 gb of ram to run win 7!


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        • #12
          freeze4real
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭freeze4real


          Just a quick update reinstalling vista did the trick it works like a charm.

          What I need to d next is to get my self 1gb off ram.

          Thanks for tbe help.


          That's true but it will work on 736mb.


        • #13
          Odaise Gaelach
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Odaise Gaelach


          freeze4real wrote: »
          Just a quick update reinstalling vista did the trick it works like a charm.

          So you re-installed Vista and that allowed you to re-install 7?


        • #14
          freeze4real
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭freeze4real


          Odaise Gaelach wrote: »
          So you re-installed Vista and that allowed you to re-install 7?

          Yes.
          I was missing the ACPI driver. The only way fir me to obtain that was to re-intall vista with all the primary drivers.
          When I did that I went to device manager the BINGO I could see the ACPI driver under the computer.


        • #15
          phill106
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,826 ✭✭✭phill106


          thebeatlebaby wrote: »
          YOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH RAM TO RUN WINDOWS 7!
          thebeatlebaby wrote: »
          you need at least 1 gb of ram to run win 7!

          Not true. I installed it on a dell c400 laptop with 768 meg of ram. Works fine.


        • #16
          CabinteelyGuy
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭CabinteelyGuy


          Running Windows 7 inside a VM which handles all my torrents runs fine with 512MB.


        • #17
          Odaise Gaelach
          Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Odaise Gaelach


          freeze4real wrote: »
          Yes.
          I was missing the ACPI driver. The only way fir me to obtain that was to re-intall vista with all the primary drivers.
          When I did that I went to device manager the BINGO I could see the ACPI driver under the computer.

          Huh. That's interesting. I'll have to remember that one. :D


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