as long as this boot cd loads windows it cannot start. it complains about no ACPI hardware. "...The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please contact your system vendor for an updated BIOS. Technical information: *** STOP: 0x0000000A5 (0x0000000000001000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x00000000FFFFFFFF, 0x0000000000002040)"