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Originally Posted by ScaredWebWarrior
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Originally Posted by nffc
And? I can't see why that is so earth-shattering.
Removing the Computer type- the hal, is the driver equivalent of getting a new mobo. [this is why XP won't work if hal.dll is missing]
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Because you cannot update the HAL in this way - there is a way, check out the MS Knowledge Base if you're interested.
The 'earth shattering' part of this is that after extensive searching all over the 'net I had failed to come up with anything that suggested what I did.
Now, if after hours and days of searching, tweaking and rebooting I'd found a little nugget of information like that and it worked for me I'd be pretty damn pleased.
So, it may not be very interesting in your opinion, but it ended a fairly lengthy quest I'd had. Seemed like a nice idea to share it with anyone who might come across the same.
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Originally Posted by nffc
Personally I find the best one seems to be Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC - better than the one XP seems to like which is ACPI Uniprocessor PC.
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In all that searching on the 'net I never did come across anyone who actually had the answer - seems like I should have asked here first... |
Sorry, I didn't mean to sound quite so condescending!
XP Power Management is rather inconsistent at the best of times. Then I spose, hibernate and standby are rather complex things to program and also have compatible for any combination of HW and SW from the last eight years! That's why they have the HALs- to cover these differences. Unfortunately some of them don't work so well...
I wasn't getting at you for sharing it, far from it.
And AFAIK, the only way to "update" the HAL is as you and I have done- uninstall the device, then install a different one- what is best, is to choose the driver from the list. As I said in the previous post, the one I find best, is the ACPI PC... but then I suppose others will work well depending on your config...