Like many other BP6 owners on this board, I decided to flash my BIOS from the QQ (beta) to the QQ (final) versions.
 
After doing this, most people seem to fall into 1 of 2 categories.
a) Everything works dandy and everybody's happy.
Windows refuses to boot and your PC is stuck in a reboot-loop.
 
I unfortunately, like may others, found myself in the latter category.
 
After many a reboot I acted on a hunch and looked at the power management settings in the BIOS. Low and behold, when the BP6 BIOS is flashed, all settings revert to their default values... Including ACPI power management, which seems to default to "disabled". Most of us BP6ers have installed W2K with ACPI support. So when W2K boots and tries to access it, it fails. Miserably.
 
The beauty is that the solution to my (and hopefully many others) problems was simply to set ACPI (first option under Power Management in the BIOS - from memory) to "Enabled". W2K booted first go, and hasn't given me any fuss since.
 
Hope this helps someone out there.
 
 
PS: I have an internal WinModem 56K X2 (V.90 compat), that I got with my Dell XPS D333, that W2K identifies as a "3Com Windows Modem TI". It used to work fine under 98. Under W2K it dials and handshakes fine. But then complains that there was "no answer when opening the port". Anyone else have a similar issue? I'm currently running off a borrowed 28.8 and it's driving me insane. I'd appreciate any and all hlp on this matter.
 
Thanks.