Guys, I've read every ACPI forum on this site and I still can't get Win2K to install. Everytime I try and install Win2K, it loads all the drivers and right before it gets to the screen that let's me choose to install/repair it locks up and gives me a blue screen of death, saying that acpi.sys is the problem. How can I fix this or override the ACPI to allow installation?? I have tried many different methods. I have an Acer Aspire 7100 series (PII 350mHz) with a DVD drive and HP 9100 series CDR Drive. My bios is VM66 and their are no options to turn on/off ACPI or APM management. The bios is short and simple and offers no power in tweaking and whatnot. Please help... I'm about to toss my box out the window of a six story building!!

Try this, Boot your computer with a startup disk, like the win98 disk, FDISK and FORMAT it, and then boot from your CD-ROM and do the setup from there. If can't or dont want to FORMAT cuase suppose you have win98 runnin also, then delte and files that win2k might of left when trying to install and run a scandisk and then run setup. If not then try the FORMAT method but ONLY if you have no other choice or find another way. Good Luck.

Sounds like u disabled the ACPI (might not say ACPI, but i forget exact name, its what makes the monitors and hard drives power down.) in the bios. It needs to be enabled.

I have been experiencing the same problem but with two exceptions. I already have 2000 installed, abd it's an upgrade from ME. It loads on occasion but very irregurlarly. I run loads of diagnostics on the hardware, no viruses. Apparently, SP2 handles this problem but can anyone give me some advice. with regards, mark

Press F7 during the portion of setup that displays the message to press F6 for adding SCSI drivers. This configures Setup to not try ACPI machine types. Take a look at: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q224/8/26.ASP

Pressing F7 as described above works.