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Bizarre crashes!
Name: Dave Date: October 22, 2003 at 08:28:23 Pacific OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: AMD Duron, 256Mb Ram
Comment:
My computer keeps freezing completely (cant even get CTRL-ALT-DEL up). Or the screen will just turn black. I had this problem with Win98 so i took the opportunity to upgrade to XP but its still happening. On rebooting i check Event Viewer and its showing the following message:-
AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to read from an illegal IO port address (0x71), which lies in the 0x70 - 0x71 protected address range. This could lead to system instability.
Anyone got any ideas what this means? Please help.
Name: pip Date: October 22, 2003 at 08:41:35 Pacific
Reply:
Reinstalling XP install by booting to the CD. You'll see a message at the bottom of the screen that says "Press F6 to install third party drivers". Press F5 at this time and in a short moment you will see a screen where you can choose your system type. Choose Standard PC. To me it sounds like your system is having a problem running in ACPI mode. This will disable that.
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Response Number 2
Name: RobbieDickon Date: October 22, 2003 at 09:01:23 Pacific
Reply:
It's easy and safe to disable ACPI from the device manager in XP. Just right click on it in the device manager, choose update driver, click I will choose the driver to install, and click on Standard PC. Reboot the PC and it will redetect all your devices.
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Response Number 3
Name: dave Date: October 22, 2003 at 13:30:35 Pacific
Reply:
thanks. i'm trying it now and i'll see if i get any crashes or not
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