Guest Roger Fink Posted April 26, 2008 Posted April 26, 2008 I'm in the process of updating the BIOS and Embedded Controller programs on a ThinkPad (required in this case as part of a miniPCI wireless upgrade). The BIOS upgrade went fine, but I aborted the embedded controller upgrade when the final message before the actual flash came up: "Exit now if Power Management is enabled." I take it this means ACPI. To figure out how to disable it, I checked both device manager and the BIOS settings. Device manager shows various subcomponents whose drivers can be uninstalled. The BIOS has a "Power" category, with subcomponents where it looks like you can only make adjustments to their operating peramemters. I could find no reference to it in Services under Administrative tools. Is there a "non-segmentized" listing for this and is there a way to just temporarily disable it?
Guest Roger Fink Posted April 26, 2008 Posted April 26, 2008 Re: Temporarily Disable Power Management It looks like you can uninstall the driver in Add/Remove, so it doesn't seem that big a deal to just reinstall it after the flash. Roger Fink wrote: > I'm in the process of updating the BIOS and Embedded Controller > programs on a ThinkPad (required in this case as part of a miniPCI > wireless upgrade). The BIOS upgrade went fine, but I aborted the > embedded controller upgrade when the final message before the actual > flash came up: "Exit now if Power Management is enabled." > > I take it this means ACPI. To figure out how to disable it, I checked > both device manager and the BIOS settings. Device manager shows > various subcomponents whose drivers can be uninstalled. The BIOS has > a "Power" category, with subcomponents where it looks like you can > only make adjustments to their operating peramemters. I could find no > reference to it in Services under Administrative tools. > > Is there a "non-segmentized" listing for this and is there a way to > just temporarily disable it?
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