VIA ACPI power management controller

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 07:45:03 -0700
Terry Lambert <tlambert2 at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Be aware that if your machine is a "B" (82C686B), then you have

It is.

> the buggy version of the chip; you need to eiter not use the
> second IDE channel for anything, or you need a BIOS update, or

Not using the second IDE channel: not an option.

BIOS update: how do I know if the latest BIOS for the port has the
appropriate fix? I don't think the support people know enough to answer
such a question.

> you need to make BIOS advanced settings changes (if your BIOS
> supports it, if you have the documentation necessary to make
> the changes, if the values are unlabelled in your BIOS, and if
> you can find and read the German web site that talks about the
> settings).

Reading German is not a problem for me. But there are a lot of German
webpages out there... which one? But this doesn't matter at the moment,
there isn't a driver...

Bye,
Alexander.

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