Installing Vista ACPI Error

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Installing Vista ACPI Error

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ChaosBeck

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9. October 2007 @ 11:57

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Hey everyone,
I recently decided to go back to Vista. I originally bought Vista close to launch and then converted back to XP because I needed to capture some videos. Now after about half a year, I want to go back... but there is a problem. Every time I try to install Vista I would get this error when it starts up:

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You must make the following changes before installing Windows:

This computer is not compliant with the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) standard. Windows must be installed onto a computer that supports ACPI. Contact your computer manufacturer for a BIOS update or install Windows on an ACPI-compliant computer.

The compatibility report will be saved to the current Windows desktop.

Now in the past six months since I uninstalled vista, the only thing I changed in my computer physically is my DVD Player/Burner from a LG to Pioneer 112DBK (on which I know has some capability issues sometimes and have even been told mine is fine). I updated the Firmware which finally allowed me to actually read the Vista DVD (but it takes 3 times [ejecting and closing] before it reads it]... but now it gives me that error.

What is wrong? Is there something I should be updating? It worked fine when I upgraded to vista for the first time (note: this is the full version, not the upgrade of Home Premium). Is it a problem with my DVD Burner? Pioneer said I should return it if it doesn't work properly, but it reads sometimes so i'm not really sure if that has anything to do with it.

Thank you for your time.

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