Power button on the case front panel does not work. Pressing the power
button leads to mouse cursor being frozen for about a second, then the machine
continues running.
Changing the function of the power button in Control Panel/Power does
nothing. Disabling the shutdown tracker also does nothing.
This occurs only on Server 2003. w2k and XP are free from this problem on
the same machine.
The mobo is Epox D3VA - 2 * Pentium III mobo on VIA Apollo chipset. Yes,
this can be a buggy ACPI table in the BIOS, but the function works OK on w2k
and XP.

Is it a problem of ACPI support in w2k3?

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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

It could still be the BIOS, W2k3 supports a higher level of ACPI than XP or
W2K, if there is a problem in a table that is ignored by the older OS'es the
same thing can happen.


Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting

"Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in message
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But if it supports a higher level of ACPI, it should be
compatible with the previous level/version.
Well, it should, but then again, W2k3 was written by
Microsoft...

No, there are ACPI tables that are ignored until W2K3, so your BIOS say you
have some ACPI 2.0 tables, XP will ignore them. but W2K3 reads them and
believes your hardware does some function correctly. It sure is not
Microsoft's fault if your hardware/bios combo is wrong!


Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting

"Alex Pranke" <anuofgod@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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This means (effectively) - running w2k3 on Pentium III machines will be very
hard and problematic.

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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com