RE: ACPI Illegal Error

From: Wesley Kendall [MSFT] (a-wesk_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/14/04


Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:11:43 GMT


>I understand. When that error is generated, do you know exactly "what" the
>ACPI is trying to write or read and this seems to be an error in Server
2003?

Unfortunately, no, I don't know what the BIOS is writing or reading -- we
need whoever wrote the code to tell us that. This error is logged when the
BIOS tries to write data to a port using ACPI Machine Language, which
causes Windows Server 2003 to prevent access to that port.

See the following KB for more info:

317513 Error Message: ACPI BIOS Is Attempting to Write to an Illegal IO Port
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=317513

This is by design as we are now preventing access to ports that some BIOSes
try to write to in the AML. This has been done to help improve the
stability of the OS.

Thanks!

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Wesley Kendall
Small Business Server Product Support
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