ACPI disabled because your bios is from 00 and too old

[Simon Bell]

Ive recently installed fedora core 1 onto an old desktop machine. It has an
Abit BP6 motherboard with 2 533 celeron cpu's in it. According to the BIOS
and manual, it is ACPI enabled, but when i enable it in grub.conf i get an
error saying my bios is to old and i should use acpi=force

Im just wondering what is actually wrong with my acpi bios? I was using
power management on windows on this machine with no problems at all. Is it
actually safe to enable acpi with the force option?

Simon
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