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I have a Dell Inspiron 3050 desktop (one of the little mini square PCs) which I'm trying to put some version of Windows on.
I'm able to load various Linux flavors, but when I try Windows, I get a blue screen with "The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant".
This happens on Windows 7, Server 2008R2, Vista, and XP, and happens both with a USB DVD drive and with a USB flash drive installation.
I'd be happy to upgrade the BIOS if I could - I have the exe from Dell's site for the latest, which I'm not even sure if it's different from mine, but since I can't get any Windows to load, I can't run it.
It won't run in Wine on Linux.
I can't boot to FreeDOS - I get "Remove disks or other media. Press any key to restart."
I've tried the "press F7 instead of F6 in the XP setup" solution - that gets me through the text-based installation but then blue-screens anyway.
The original recovery partition on this machine is toast - I lost that a long time ago, so I can't restore the emergency recovery OS.
My system is set for Legacy mode - whenever I try UEFI, I can't get a bootable USB drive to get recognized, regardless of whether I made it with unetbootin, Tuxboot, or Diskpart with manual copying. When I'm manually building the USB drives, I format them with FAT32 on MBR.
Is there some way I can boot to a command prompt or something with a Windows install disc, long enough to try to update the BIOS? Or any other way to get around this error message?
I'm not very good with boot stuff, so if you've got a complex answer, I'd really appreciate if you could dumb it down for me a bit.
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I have a Dell Inspiron 3050 desktop (one of the little mini square PCs) which I'm trying to put some version of Windows on.
I'm able to load various Linux flavors, but when I try Windows, I get a blue screen with "The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant".
This happens on Windows 7, Server 2008R2, Vista, and XP, and happens both with a USB DVD drive and with a USB flash drive installation.
I'd be happy to upgrade the BIOS if I could - I have the exe from Dell's site for the latest, which I'm not even sure if it's different from mine, but since I can't get any Windows to load, I can't run it.
It won't run in Wine on Linux.
I can't boot to FreeDOS - I get "Remove disks or other media. Press any key to restart."
I've tried the "press F7 instead of F6 in the XP setup" solution - that gets me through the text-based installation but then blue-screens anyway.
The original recovery partition on this machine is toast - I lost that a long time ago, so I can't restore the emergency recovery OS.
My system is set for Legacy mode - whenever I try UEFI, I can't get a bootable USB drive to get recognized, regardless of whether I made it with unetbootin, Tuxboot, or Diskpart with manual copying. When I'm manually building the USB drives, I format them with FAT32 on MBR.
Is there some way I can boot to a command prompt or something with a Windows install disc, long enough to try to update the BIOS? Or any other way to get around this error message?
I'm not very good with boot stuff, so if you've got a complex answer, I'd really appreciate if you could dumb it down for me a bit.
windows-7 boot bios acpi
asked Apr 3 '18 at 2:45
Joe EnosJoe Enos
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This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed.
Use Windows 8 or newer in UEFI mode only. If you make your Windows installation USB with the official tool it will boot perfectly in UEFI mode with or without Secure Boot.
– user772515
Apr 3 '18 at 20:43
@MichaelBay I'll see if I can get a copy of Windows 8 or 10 - all I have at the moment are XP, Vista, 7, and 2008R2, but I'm sure I can get a copy. So if I do get that, and assuming I still get the blue screen during install, does 8 or 10 have a way of getting to the command line earlier than 7, so I can upgrade the BIOS?
– Joe Enos
Apr 3 '18 at 21:06
You don't have BIOS, you have what replaces it and it's called UEFI. No update needed (at least not because of the misleading error message). Legacy mode is there for compatibility but it often results in such errors. UEFI is the standard and has been for almost a decade. Learn it, embrace it and stop living in the past.
– user772515
Apr 3 '18 at 21:55
@MichaelBay I'm not using Legacy by choice - it's the only way I can get my USB drives or DVD drive to even get recognized at boot. If I set UEFI mode, then they don't even show up in the boot options, no matter how I build them, at least with the OS's that I've tried (Windows through 7, Ubuntu, CentOS, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint). Maybe it'll be different with Windows 10 - I'll know tonight when I try. But as I said, i'm not great with boot stuff, so it's possible I'm doing something wrong there. Or maybe there's something actually wrong with my machine that's not a software/firmware issue.
– Joe Enos
Apr 3 '18 at 22:16
As @MichaelBay suggested in the comments, I installed Windows 10, switching over to UEFI instead of Legacy, and it installed successfully. If you want to make that an answer, I'll accept it, since it's 2018, and it seems like a reasonable solution that Windows 7 is no longer a real option. I don't have a resolution to my actual issue, since I still don't know if I can go back and downgrade to Windows 7 - but I'm not going to now, so I suppose I'll never know.
– Joe Enos
Apr 4 '18 at 15:00
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I have a Dell Inspiron 3050 desktop (one of the little mini square PCs) which I'm trying to put some version of Windows on.
I'm able to load various Linux flavors, but when I try Windows, I get a blue screen with "The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant".
This happens on Windows 7, Server 2008R2, Vista, and XP, and happens both with a USB DVD drive and with a USB flash drive installation.
I'd be happy to upgrade the BIOS if I could - I have the exe from Dell's site for the latest, which I'm not even sure if it's different from mine, but since I can't get any Windows to load, I can't run it.
It won't run in Wine on Linux.
I can't boot to FreeDOS - I get "Remove disks or other media. Press any key to restart."
I've tried the "press F7 instead of F6 in the XP setup" solution - that gets me through the text-based installation but then blue-screens anyway.
The original recovery partition on this machine is toast - I lost that a long time ago, so I can't restore the emergency recovery OS.
My system is set for Legacy mode - whenever I try UEFI, I can't get a bootable USB drive to get recognized, regardless of whether I made it with unetbootin, Tuxboot, or Diskpart with manual copying. When I'm manually building the USB drives, I format them with FAT32 on MBR.
Is there some way I can boot to a command prompt or something with a Windows install disc, long enough to try to update the BIOS? Or any other way to get around this error message?
I'm not very good with boot stuff, so if you've got a complex answer, I'd really appreciate if you could dumb it down for me a bit.
windows-7 boot bios acpi
asked Apr 3 '18 at 2:45
Joe EnosJoe Enos
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I have a Dell Inspiron 3050 desktop (one of the little mini square PCs) which I'm trying to put some version of Windows on.
I'm able to load various Linux flavors, but when I try Windows, I get a blue screen with "The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant".
This happens on Windows 7, Server 2008R2, Vista, and XP, and happens both with a USB DVD drive and with a USB flash drive installation.
I'd be happy to upgrade the BIOS if I could - I have the exe from Dell's site for the latest, which I'm not even sure if it's different from mine, but since I can't get any Windows to load, I can't run it.
It won't run in Wine on Linux.
I can't boot to FreeDOS - I get "Remove disks or other media. Press any key to restart."
I've tried the "press F7 instead of F6 in the XP setup" solution - that gets me through the text-based installation but then blue-screens anyway.
The original recovery partition on this machine is toast - I lost that a long time ago, so I can't restore the emergency recovery OS.
My system is set for Legacy mode - whenever I try UEFI, I can't get a bootable USB drive to get recognized, regardless of whether I made it with unetbootin, Tuxboot, or Diskpart with manual copying. When I'm manually building the USB drives, I format them with FAT32 on MBR.
Is there some way I can boot to a command prompt or something with a Windows install disc, long enough to try to update the BIOS? Or any other way to get around this error message?
I'm not very good with boot stuff, so if you've got a complex answer, I'd really appreciate if you could dumb it down for me a bit.
windows-7 boot bios acpi
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Use Windows 8 or newer in UEFI mode only. If you make your Windows installation USB with the official tool it will boot perfectly in UEFI mode with or without Secure Boot.
– user772515
Apr 3 '18 at 20:43
@MichaelBay I'll see if I can get a copy of Windows 8 or 10 - all I have at the moment are XP, Vista, 7, and 2008R2, but I'm sure I can get a copy. So if I do get that, and assuming I still get the blue screen during install, does 8 or 10 have a way of getting to the command line earlier than 7, so I can upgrade the BIOS?
– Joe Enos
Apr 3 '18 at 21:06
You don't have BIOS, you have what replaces it and it's called UEFI. No update needed (at least not because of the misleading error message). Legacy mode is there for compatibility but it often results in such errors. UEFI is the standard and has been for almost a decade. Learn it, embrace it and stop living in the past.
– user772515
Apr 3 '18 at 21:55
@MichaelBay I'm not using Legacy by choice - it's the only way I can get my USB drives or DVD drive to even get recognized at boot. If I set UEFI mode, then they don't even show up in the boot options, no matter how I build them, at least with the OS's that I've tried (Windows through 7, Ubuntu, CentOS, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint). Maybe it'll be different with Windows 10 - I'll know tonight when I try. But as I said, i'm not great with boot stuff, so it's possible I'm doing something wrong there. Or maybe there's something actually wrong with my machine that's not a software/firmware issue.
– Joe Enos
Apr 3 '18 at 22:16
As @MichaelBay suggested in the comments, I installed Windows 10, switching over to UEFI instead of Legacy, and it installed successfully. If you want to make that an answer, I'll accept it, since it's 2018, and it seems like a reasonable solution that Windows 7 is no longer a real option. I don't have a resolution to my actual issue, since I still don't know if I can go back and downgrade to Windows 7 - but I'm not going to now, so I suppose I'll never know.
– Joe Enos
Apr 4 '18 at 15:00
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Use Windows 8 or newer in UEFI mode only. If you make your Windows installation USB with the official tool it will boot perfectly in UEFI mode with or without Secure Boot.
– user772515
Apr 3 '18 at 20:43
@MichaelBay I'll see if I can get a copy of Windows 8 or 10 - all I have at the moment are XP, Vista, 7, and 2008R2, but I'm sure I can get a copy. So if I do get that, and assuming I still get the blue screen during install, does 8 or 10 have a way of getting to the command line earlier than 7, so I can upgrade the BIOS?
– Joe Enos
Apr 3 '18 at 21:06
You don't have BIOS, you have what replaces it and it's called UEFI. No update needed (at least not because of the misleading error message). Legacy mode is there for compatibility but it often results in such errors. UEFI is the standard and has been for almost a decade. Learn it, embrace it and stop living in the past.
– user772515
Apr 3 '18 at 21:55
@MichaelBay I'm not using Legacy by choice - it's the only way I can get my USB drives or DVD drive to even get recognized at boot. If I set UEFI mode, then they don't even show up in the boot options, no matter how I build them, at least with the OS's that I've tried (Windows through 7, Ubuntu, CentOS, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint). Maybe it'll be different with Windows 10 - I'll know tonight when I try. But as I said, i'm not great with boot stuff, so it's possible I'm doing something wrong there. Or maybe there's something actually wrong with my machine that's not a software/firmware issue.
– Joe Enos
Apr 3 '18 at 22:16
As @MichaelBay suggested in the comments, I installed Windows 10, switching over to UEFI instead of Legacy, and it installed successfully. If you want to make that an answer, I'll accept it, since it's 2018, and it seems like a reasonable solution that Windows 7 is no longer a real option. I don't have a resolution to my actual issue, since I still don't know if I can go back and downgrade to Windows 7 - but I'm not going to now, so I suppose I'll never know.
– Joe Enos
Apr 4 '18 at 15:00
Use Windows 8 or newer in UEFI mode only. If you make your Windows installation USB with the official tool it will boot perfectly in UEFI mode with or without Secure Boot.
– user772515
Apr 3 '18 at 20:43
Use Windows 8 or newer in UEFI mode only. If you make your Windows installation USB with the official tool it will boot perfectly in UEFI mode with or without Secure Boot.
– user772515
Apr 3 '18 at 20:43
@MichaelBay I'll see if I can get a copy of Windows 8 or 10 - all I have at the moment are XP, Vista, 7, and 2008R2, but I'm sure I can get a copy. So if I do get that, and assuming I still get the blue screen during install, does 8 or 10 have a way of getting to the command line earlier than 7, so I can upgrade the BIOS?
– Joe Enos
Apr 3 '18 at 21:06
@MichaelBay I'll see if I can get a copy of Windows 8 or 10 - all I have at the moment are XP, Vista, 7, and 2008R2, but I'm sure I can get a copy. So if I do get that, and assuming I still get the blue screen during install, does 8 or 10 have a way of getting to the command line earlier than 7, so I can upgrade the BIOS?
– Joe Enos
Apr 3 '18 at 21:06
You don't have BIOS, you have what replaces it and it's called UEFI. No update needed (at least not because of the misleading error message). Legacy mode is there for compatibility but it often results in such errors. UEFI is the standard and has been for almost a decade. Learn it, embrace it and stop living in the past.
– user772515
Apr 3 '18 at 21:55
You don't have BIOS, you have what replaces it and it's called UEFI. No update needed (at least not because of the misleading error message). Legacy mode is there for compatibility but it often results in such errors. UEFI is the standard and has been for almost a decade. Learn it, embrace it and stop living in the past.
– user772515
Apr 3 '18 at 21:55
@MichaelBay I'm not using Legacy by choice - it's the only way I can get my USB drives or DVD drive to even get recognized at boot. If I set UEFI mode, then they don't even show up in the boot options, no matter how I build them, at least with the OS's that I've tried (Windows through 7, Ubuntu, CentOS, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint). Maybe it'll be different with Windows 10 - I'll know tonight when I try. But as I said, i'm not great with boot stuff, so it's possible I'm doing something wrong there. Or maybe there's something actually wrong with my machine that's not a software/firmware issue.
– Joe Enos
Apr 3 '18 at 22:16
@MichaelBay I'm not using Legacy by choice - it's the only way I can get my USB drives or DVD drive to even get recognized at boot. If I set UEFI mode, then they don't even show up in the boot options, no matter how I build them, at least with the OS's that I've tried (Windows through 7, Ubuntu, CentOS, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint). Maybe it'll be different with Windows 10 - I'll know tonight when I try. But as I said, i'm not great with boot stuff, so it's possible I'm doing something wrong there. Or maybe there's something actually wrong with my machine that's not a software/firmware issue.
– Joe Enos
Apr 3 '18 at 22:16
As @MichaelBay suggested in the comments, I installed Windows 10, switching over to UEFI instead of Legacy, and it installed successfully. If you want to make that an answer, I'll accept it, since it's 2018, and it seems like a reasonable solution that Windows 7 is no longer a real option. I don't have a resolution to my actual issue, since I still don't know if I can go back and downgrade to Windows 7 - but I'm not going to now, so I suppose I'll never know.
– Joe Enos
Apr 4 '18 at 15:00
As @MichaelBay suggested in the comments, I installed Windows 10, switching over to UEFI instead of Legacy, and it installed successfully. If you want to make that an answer, I'll accept it, since it's 2018, and it seems like a reasonable solution that Windows 7 is no longer a real option. I don't have a resolution to my actual issue, since I still don't know if I can go back and downgrade to Windows 7 - but I'm not going to now, so I suppose I'll never know.
– Joe Enos
Apr 4 '18 at 15:00
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I also encountered the same error when trying to install Windows 7.
This is what I have done:
- Go to BIOS. Opening it varies on every device. A simple search on the web will help you find how to go to BIOS.
- Under Advanced > OS Version, it was selected to Windows 10, which then I replaced it to Windows 7.
After saving BIOS configuration, I tried installing it again, and I never encountered the error, and the installation was done successfully.
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What model computer was this?
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I also encountered the same error when trying to install Windows 7.
This is what I have done:
- Go to BIOS. Opening it varies on every device. A simple search on the web will help you find how to go to BIOS.
- Under Advanced > OS Version, it was selected to Windows 10, which then I replaced it to Windows 7.
After saving BIOS configuration, I tried installing it again, and I never encountered the error, and the installation was done successfully.
edited Oct 5 '18 at 7:35
Lloyd Dominic
144113
answered Jun 24 '18 at 1:11
NoelNoel
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What model computer was this?
– music2myear
Jun 26 '18 at 16:37
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I also encountered the same error when trying to install Windows 7.
This is what I have done:
- Go to BIOS. Opening it varies on every device. A simple search on the web will help you find how to go to BIOS.
- Under Advanced > OS Version, it was selected to Windows 10, which then I replaced it to Windows 7.
After saving BIOS configuration, I tried installing it again, and I never encountered the error, and the installation was done successfully.
edited Oct 5 '18 at 7:35
Lloyd Dominic
144113
answered Jun 24 '18 at 1:11
NoelNoel
1
What model computer was this?
– music2myear
Jun 26 '18 at 16:37
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I also encountered the same error when trying to install Windows 7.
This is what I have done:
- Go to BIOS. Opening it varies on every device. A simple search on the web will help you find how to go to BIOS.
- Under Advanced > OS Version, it was selected to Windows 10, which then I replaced it to Windows 7.
After saving BIOS configuration, I tried installing it again, and I never encountered the error, and the installation was done successfully.
edited Oct 5 '18 at 7:35
Lloyd Dominic
144113
answered Jun 24 '18 at 1:11
NoelNoel
1
I also encountered the same error when trying to install Windows 7.
This is what I have done:
- Go to BIOS. Opening it varies on every device. A simple search on the web will help you find how to go to BIOS.
- Under Advanced > OS Version, it was selected to Windows 10, which then I replaced it to Windows 7.
After saving BIOS configuration, I tried installing it again, and I never encountered the error, and the installation was done successfully.
edited Oct 5 '18 at 7:35
Lloyd Dominic
144113
answered Jun 24 '18 at 1:11
NoelNoel
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edited Oct 5 '18 at 7:35
Lloyd Dominic
144113
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Lloyd Dominic
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What model computer was this?
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What model computer was this?
– music2myear
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What model computer was this?
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Use Windows 8 or newer in UEFI mode only. If you make your Windows installation USB with the official tool it will boot perfectly in UEFI mode with or without Secure Boot.
– user772515
Apr 3 '18 at 20:43
@MichaelBay I'll see if I can get a copy of Windows 8 or 10 - all I have at the moment are XP, Vista, 7, and 2008R2, but I'm sure I can get a copy. So if I do get that, and assuming I still get the blue screen during install, does 8 or 10 have a way of getting to the command line earlier than 7, so I can upgrade the BIOS?
– Joe Enos
Apr 3 '18 at 21:06
You don't have BIOS, you have what replaces it and it's called UEFI. No update needed (at least not because of the misleading error message). Legacy mode is there for compatibility but it often results in such errors. UEFI is the standard and has been for almost a decade. Learn it, embrace it and stop living in the past.
– user772515
Apr 3 '18 at 21:55
@MichaelBay I'm not using Legacy by choice - it's the only way I can get my USB drives or DVD drive to even get recognized at boot. If I set UEFI mode, then they don't even show up in the boot options, no matter how I build them, at least with the OS's that I've tried (Windows through 7, Ubuntu, CentOS, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint). Maybe it'll be different with Windows 10 - I'll know tonight when I try. But as I said, i'm not great with boot stuff, so it's possible I'm doing something wrong there. Or maybe there's something actually wrong with my machine that's not a software/firmware issue.
– Joe Enos
Apr 3 '18 at 22:16
As @MichaelBay suggested in the comments, I installed Windows 10, switching over to UEFI instead of Legacy, and it installed successfully. If you want to make that an answer, I'll accept it, since it's 2018, and it seems like a reasonable solution that Windows 7 is no longer a real option. I don't have a resolution to my actual issue, since I still don't know if I can go back and downgrade to Windows 7 - but I'm not going to now, so I suppose I'll never know.
– Joe Enos
Apr 4 '18 at 15:00