Re: ACPI Bios Problem

From: Jym (_at_home)
Date: 04/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:56:44 -0700

Since you are having lockups or freezes you cannot ignore the problem. Start
here. Go to help and support / Performance and Maintance / Maintaining Your
Computer / View status of system hardware and software. This will show you
about the problem devices that may be causing you problem . Post back with
results. Jym

"DuggieBoy" <dugald.craig@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:522D8172-1389-48F0-98C9-D1E07F7E8ED0@microsoft.com...
> Please can someone help: I installed Windows xpPro onto Gigabyte GA5AX rev
4.1 mobo with latest BIOS F4 (Initially with a Radeon 7000 card but due to
crashes and instability bought a PCI Nvida geforece MX440) even more
frequent lockups.
>
> Error Log report:
> AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to write to an illegal IO port address
(0x4d0), which lies in the 0x4d0 - 0x4d1 protected address range. This could
lead to system instability. Please contact your system vendor for technical
assistance.
>
> Unfortunately Gigabyte don't seem to want to know. I have tried turning
APM off in the Bios and also changed it from Plug and 'Pray' aware. Another
step that I have taken is to uninstall and remove the ISA Vibra 16 sound
card.
> Despite this I am still getting an additional error in the log with the
identical message on each boot up.
>
> I suspect from what I have read that this is going to be difficult to
resolve. I wil be really grateful if someone could advise me on how to sort
it out and get a reliable machine that doesn't clash with the video drivers.
> Thanks in advance
>