ACPI problems

[Udrinkbullsmilk 0]

Made a comp out of the following parts, AOpen MK33 kt133 motherboard, Duron 1000, geforce 2mx, 256 ram, quantum HD, pine modem. I have used the latest BIOS available for this motherboard, tried different sticks of memory, no good.

Problem is as follows; AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to read from an illegal IO port address (0x71) which lies in the 0x70 - 0x71 protected address range, bla bla blah.. could lead to system instability.

Well it sure does, comp just freezes when this pops up, eager to hear your input, thanks.

[BladeRunner 0]

There are 2 articles about this error in the MS Knowledge base:

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-GB;q283649&GSSNB=1

 

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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-GB;q309308&GSSNB=1

 

Both of them typically point at this being a motherboard BIOS issue (Just because you have the latest BIOS release doesn't mean it's working correctly, AOpen may need contacting so they know of this problem).

If AOpen aren't forthcoming then you may need to go for a non-ACPI installation of WinXP - It looks like the AOpen BIOS isn't 100% ACPI compatible, to get around it don't attempt to use ACPI.

[OLEerror 0]

Device drivers can also cause this problem, occasionally. Did you install any drivers that are not XP certified? And did this problem occur right after you installed XP, or is it something that popped up after a while?

[Udrinkbullsmilk 0]

This popped up immediately after install, no drivers whatsoever used.

Not familiar with installing without ACPI, will look into it.

[ThC 129 0]

Well if you can get into safe mode, go to the device manager and change the computer type from ACPI Compliant to Standard PC. Also if that doesnt work when you reinstall press F6 when it asks you to, then you can select Standard PC from there.

[Wolf87 0]

Choose either F5 or F7 for the Standard PC list. F6 is for Raid and SCSI drivers. If you need both, push F7 and F6 at the same time.

 

It is not not possible to go from ACPI to Standard PC by changing drivers because these are different kernels so all plug and play and hardware identification has to be redone and Repair could only reinstall ACPI.

[Udrinkbullsmilk 0]

I tried the f5 f7 approach but was stumped when it asked for a manufacturers driver disk. I continued through the re-install but experienced the same problems almost immediately.

Thanks for the help guys, I have solved this now with a copy of win98 for this pc and think the motherboard is just incompatible with XP at the moment.