I have got a new msi-S271 (ms-1058b) barebone and filled with an AMD Turion X2 TL-56, 2 GB Corsair DDR2-667 RAM modules and hard disk-80GB Hitachi 7K100. The installation went very well and the documentation was great. The problems began when I tried to use my new laptop with a piece of software. I usually start by creating a partition of 64 MB for the grub. knoppx thought it would be perfect for the job. But there was no way knoppix (v5.0.1, v4.0.2) boot to a certain point where you can start with partitioning. So I tried Gentoo 2006.0 AMD64 boot-cd, finally it was meant to be my main os. Well, the only way to begin gentoo passed the "acpi = off 'parameter to the kernel. Too bad, no acpi amd64 system, but it was only to make a single partition of 64 MB, so what. I have created the boot loader i-continued partition with Windows XP x64. Installation boot cd was good, too original. So I had my windows up and continued with all the drivers little is needed. Suddenly the system was unresponsive. Just frozen. About 20 new installations later (actually I used ntfsclone once the system is clean installation) I noticed that windows freezes randomly. Not good. So I continued with Linux, since a gentoo installation of hardware very demanding test. I am writing this message today on my laptop Linux small Linux never crashed, not once. But no acpi-support, which means no information about battery status, no state of suspension, no powernow, no power management at all! The system becomes very hot, since both CPU cores are running at full speed all the time, curiously does not become warmer to compile. kde compilation was the whole damn smooth and fast too! Powerful little book. Was also 24 hours of memtest86 + without a single flaw! But the windows kept freezing at random. Well, my conclusion is that the acpi-part of the BIOS is buggy. Linux will not boot with acpi enabled, but works fine without it. The same goes for OpenBSD (amd64). Windows starts up the acpi and crashes at some point. There is no ruling that when this happens. Once he worked 3 hours in a room with windows, next left after 5 minutes in the boot for the first time in the morning. But against all the odds of that book and I still search the same way to achieve full of life! S271 all users out there:
• What os-versions are you running?
• What bios-versions do you use?
• What’s your experience?
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