RE: ACPI failure during install

I also have a DK8N running BIOS v111 (14 June 2005). The most recent.
The board is 2 years and 3 months old.
The BIOS has been ACPI 2.0 compliant from the first revision.
But I think Vista requires the BIOS to be ACPI 3.0 compliant. Not sure.

The STOP error I'm getting is :
The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please contact your
system vendor for an updated BIOS.
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000A5
(0x0000000000000017,0x0000000000000022,0x000000000 0000000,0x0000000000000000,0x0000000000000000)

Over here : http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?t=44816&page=71
you can read that the DK8N is discontinued.
(The guy Stormlord is working for an Iwill distributor :
http://www.iwill-benelux.com.)
He mentiones that Iwill is taken over by Flextronics, and that it is very
unlikely that a new BIOS will be released.

At first I had problems with this, but I soon gave up on the motherboard.
A couple of hundred euros is not worth the risk of a heart attack.


"ComputerDummy" wrote:

> The Code means your not ACPI Compliant.
>
> look and see what Version of ACPI your mobo has... you can do this sometimes
> with the handbook for the board or at www.esupport.com has a programm for
> this you'll see its vers. 1.0 and Vista is made for vers. 2 or better
>
> the computerdummy
>
>
> "Andrew Clarke" wrote:
>
> > I have an IWill DK8N dual operton motherboard, latest BIOS 1.11, and Vista
> > Beta 2, both 32- and 64-bit versions fail at the installation stage, blue
> > screening after the loading files screen with an error 0x00000A5 (subcodes
> > 0x17 0x22).
> >
> > This PC is running XP SP2 quite happily with the ACPI Multiprocessor Kernel,
> > as I said this is the latest BIOS available, and a fairly recent motherboard
> > (less than 18 months old).
> >
> > I couldn't find any clues as to what the subcodes for the STOP error
> > indicate, which would possibly help me track down the problem.
> >
> > Any ideas on how I can pin-point the issue more rather than just give up
> > completely on installing Beta 2?