NONE of my NICs work! PCI problem?

[AngelicKnight]

I have a very wierd problem. I took a server with W2k server that is no longer being used and replaced the OS with W2k Pro. When I did, installation of the new OS halted because my BIOS was not "ACPI" compliant, so sayeth the blue screen.

After wasting money on a new BIOS, I finally discovered that my problem was with one of my devices. So aftet unplugging and replugging every single device, I finally discovered it was my NICs that were causing the error, as evidently, according to the error code, there are no entries for the two present NICs in the IRQ table.

So, I got rid of both NICs and tried another one altogether. Same problem. Repeated in each of my three PCI slots with each of my three NICs. Same blue screen.

So what's going on? Are my PCI slots just blown? What can I do? I've never messed with BIOS or IRQ tables before, so this is quite beyond me.

 

[DavidDCSA]

ACPI= Advanced Configuration Power Interface.
I believe that the O/S is telling you that ACPI is enabled but that your NIC isn't ACPI compliant (can't be powered off by the O/S). Try disabling ACPI in your BIOS configuration.