Temporarily Disable Power Management

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Roger Fink

I'm in the process of updating the BIOS and Embedded Controller programs on
a ThinkPad (required in this case as part of a miniPCI wireless upgrade).
The BIOS upgrade went fine, but I aborted the embedded controller upgrade
when the final message before the actual flash came up: "Exit now if Power
Management is enabled."

I take it this means ACPI. To figure out how to disable it, I checked both
device manager and the BIOS settings. Device manager shows various
subcomponents whose drivers can be uninstalled. The BIOS has a "Power"
category, with subcomponents where it looks like you can only make
adjustments to their operating peramemters. I could find no reference to it
in Services under Administrative tools.

Is there a "non-segmentized" listing for this and is there a way to just
temporarily disable it?
 
It looks like you can uninstall the driver in Add/Remove, so it doesn't seem
that big a deal to just reinstall it after the flash.
 
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