Windows 2000 Temporarily Disable Power Management

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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?
 
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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