Problems installing Beta 2

Hi I just tried to install the Vista Beta 2 on my laptop, but I get a blue screen when the installation starts.
The error says: The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please contact your system vendor for an updated BIOS.
Specs: Asus W3451NUP (W3N series) Pentium M 735 1.7 GHz Intel 855PM chipset Radeon 9700 1 GB memory 80 GB harddrive
I have the latest bios from Asus...
Can someone help me?

Download and run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor beta http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx
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"Mike W" wrote:
| Hi I just tried to install the Vista Beta 2 on my laptop, but I get a blue | screen when the installation starts. | | The error says: The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please | contact | your system vendor for an updated BIOS. | | Specs: Asus W3451NUP (W3N series) | Pentium M 735 1.7 GHz | Intel 855PM chipset | Radeon 9700 | 1 GB memory | 80 GB harddrive | | I have the latest bios from Asus... | | Can someone help me?

I Have this problem, please help
"Mike W" wrote:

I tried that, it reports no problems (other than my video card only has 64MB and needs 128MB)
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" skrev i en meddelelse

Sounds to me like you both may need to either upgrade your current BIOS version and/or disable ACPI power managment in the BIOS.
"William Aranda" wrote:

Mmmm i have a notebook toshiba M35X-SP171(Mexican), excuseme for my bad english, and i can`t update my bios.
Celeron M 1.3Ghz 512Mb Ram 40Gb HD Intel 855GM Video Card 32Mb Windows XP Home Edition SP2
"Blue_Rival" wrote:

I have the same problem installing on my gateway laptop, I checked the upgrade advisor and everything was fine, and according to XP I am running an ACPI uniprocessor computer, the bios is the latest version from Gateway, but still no luck, tried many things but still get that bluescreen
"Mike W" wrote:

Same problem here on a Gateway Notebook. Upgrade advisor said everything was okay and made it throught to the first reboot and got the same ACPI error. Tried Upgrade and Clean install. No luck. According to Gateway I have the most current BIOS and am fully ACPI compliant no matter what VISTA says. Too bad. I can't believe no one from MS has addressed this issue. I am kind of dissapointed at the lack of response. There should be some kind of patch available to fix this. Unfortunately I ordered the DVD and looks like it is now a waste of money.
"Mike W" wrote:

Same problem here on a Gateway Notebook. Upgrade advisor said everything was okay and made it throught to the first reboot and got the same ACPI error. Tried Upgrade and Clean install. No luck. According to Gateway I have the most current BIOS and am fully ACPI compliant no matter what VISTA says. Too bad. I can't believe no one from MS has addressed this issue. I am kind of dissapointed at the lack of response. There should be some kind of patch available to fix this. Unfortunately I ordered the DVD and looks like it is now a waste of money.
"Mike W" wrote:

Same problem here on a Gateway Notebook. Upgrade advisor said everything was okay and made it throught to the first reboot and got the same ACPI error. Tried Upgrade and Clean install. No luck. According to Gateway I have the most current BIOS and am fully ACPI compliant no matter what VISTA says. Too bad. I can't believe no one from MS has addressed this issue. I am kind of dissapointed at the lack of response. There should be some kind of patch available to fix this. Unfortunately I ordered the DVD and looks like it is now a waste of money.
"Mike W" wrote:

"Mike W" wrote:

good thing I didn't order the dvd, just the download, I tried many fixes that I could find on the net but no luck unfortunatly, nothing seems to work to get Vista to install on a Gateway Notebook, guess Microsoft is going to be losing customers using gateway for this new version if they can't fix this issue
"JohnM19147" wrote:

Unfortunately this does not solve the problem on my computer.
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

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