Q: Windows XP professional ACPI error
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Oct 17, 2015 6:47 PMby Loner T,1. What year/model is your Mac?
2. Are you using BC Assistant to install WXP?
3. Can you run the following two procedures and try again?
Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support
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Oct 17, 2015 7:10 PMby ilovemac ,Macbook 9,2
Boot Camp Assistant: no.Have Linux ONLY on my mac.Have Hybrid MBR setup for windows
Tried BOTH.On 1 try the bsod didnt show,so those have affect,but I needed to do them at the same time
for it to work.I have System Recovery for a Mac OS X terminal or emergency OSX install
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Oct 17, 2015 7:46 PMby Loner T,ilovemac wrote:
Macbook 9,2
I assume it is a MacbookPro 9,2 (2012 13-in MBP - How to identify MacBook Pro models - Apple Support ).
Boot Camp Assistant: no.Have Linux ONLY on my mac.Have Hybrid MBR setup for windows
Tried BOTH.On 1 try the bsod didnt show,so those have affect,but I needed to do them at the same time
for it to work.I have System Recovery for a Mac OS X terminal or emergency OSX install
1. From Install Windows 7 and earlier on your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support, you can see 2012 Mac has no support for XP.
2. ACPI has several versions and the version supported by XP (v2.0/3.0) is fairly old and unsupported in a 2012 Mac.
3. I have an ACPI-compliant W7 and W8.1 running on a 2012 MBP.
4. If you have removed Apple EFI firmware from the Mac, there is no CSM-BIOS, even if you have created a MBR, it will not work.
Is there a specific reason for XP? If you really need it, and do not need hardware access, used a Virtualization engine. You should consider W7 as the minimum version for your Mac. Even if you can manage to install a hobbled version of XP, the next hurdle will be drivers for Apple hardware, which are from BC 3.
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Oct 18, 2015 5:37 AMby Loner T,ilovemac wrote:
NORMAL 32 bit xp can run,so why cant this? Trying to run 64 bit windows.
64-bit XP is different from 32-bit versions. As a test, install W7 and verify compatibility with ACPI versions.
By the way,it could be a lack of drivers and when i did the SMC and PRAM without booting into linux and it worked.
You are contradicting yourself. The same driver(s) are in place before and after SMC and NVRAM Reset. If booting Linux causes problems, then the ACPI versions mismatch between what the Mac can support and what Linux wants. Linux ignores such issues, while XP does not. As mentioned, try W7.
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Oct 18, 2015 2:38 PMby ilovemac ,ACPI works with Windows 7 and 8.I am installing Windows XP x64 so i can UPGRADE to windows 7. On my mac,MS-DOS can boot up from a USB,can run WordPerfect 5 with slowdos and Windows 3.1 works,too (no mouse or keyboard support in 3.1).So it can run old operating systems.Windows XP x64 has only 2 pc types,ACPI multiprocesser and ACPI uniprocesser,so I cant disable ACPI.When I did SMC and NVRAM reset at the same time,one after another,the error didnt show up but it hanged.
Look at this line:
"One greatly simplified explanation (which might not be completely accurate) is that the system cannot find a way to get to the ACPI tables that define the Plug and Play and Power Management capabilities of the system."
so maybe we could start there.
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Oct 18, 2015 3:51 PMby Loner T,ilovemac wrote:
ACPI works with Windows 7 and 8.I am installing Windows XP x64 so i can UPGRADE to windows 7.
Your problem is much simpler then. Install WXP 64-bit, with a non-working ACPI, which is a minor irritant. Upgrade to W7 with the non-working ACPI. Once you are on W7, remove the old ACPI drivers, and instal W7 ACPI drivers. You should have a working W7 with ACPI. Will that solve your ACPI-specific issue?
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Oct 18, 2015 4:45 PMby Loner T,ilovemac wrote:
i CANT use anything other than ACPI
Can you boot Windows XP 64-bit on your Mac? Can you install WXP 64-bit on your Mac? If you see this during the installation, use the SMC/NVRAM Reset which seems to be working, and try to install WXP. Test with ACPI UniProcessor.
What bootable version of OS X do you currently have?
