Sony Vaio Shutdown problem

[krevo]

I have one of the dreaded Vaio's with the 20 some odd burnt up capicitors around the processor. Well, it won't take XP or 2k due to the APCI being built into XP/2k and can't be disabled.



So I try ubuntu, and it reboots just as xp does right when APCI modules load. Then I try Mandrake 10.1. Same thing.

Any one offer any help as to disabling it in any modern distro? Right now the "acpi=off" in the kernel header isn't working. For some reason I can't seem to find a way to remove the package from the kernel on install with both Man and Ubuntu


I'm thinking of trying Gentoo just cause of kernel config.

 

[bersl2]

Also try putting "noacpi", "noapic", and "pci=noacpi" on the kernel command line.

 

[krevo]

bumpage

 

[Nothinman]

noacpi should do what you want.