ACPI Controller not found

CircuitSix wrote:
 > I just built a new system with the ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe mobo. I have a
 > 380 True Power 2.0 power supply. When i boot the system the POST
 > detects all devices correctly except the ACPI Controller. Instead of
 > vendor numbers, and all that it just says
 > IRQ
 > ACPI Controller 9
 >
 > SYSTEM BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK
 >
 > I dont know what the ACPI Controller is or how to fix this. Any ideas?
 >

The boot failure likely has nothing to do with the ACPI controller, you
just have no bootable disk inserted.

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Im not that much of an idiot.
The problem was the disk wasn't being detected because i was using a SATA Optical Drive which asus says is incompatible with the nf4 chipset and my mobo didnt know how to boot off a sata optical drive.
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CircuitSix wrote:

> Im not that much of an idiot.

But Hancock wasn't wrong either. SATA optical drives can be considered
bleeding edge technology prone to incomatibilities and errors that will be
fixed as time goes on.
Why didn't you just try booting off a floppy, as anyone else would have done
receiving that message? I still wonder how you came to think of the
ACPI-controller as the culprit.

> The problem was the disk wasn't being detected because i was using a
> SATA Optical Drive which asus says is incompatible with the nf4
> chipset and my mobo didnt know how to boot off a sata optical drive.

No surprise really. Why pay extra for SATA optical drives when there is no
advantage using them?
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