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duramax · 10-15-2003, 11:42 AM

My friend recently purchased a new HD (WD Caviar 80GB) I partitioned the drive, Formated NTFS, Installed WinXP, and proceeded to download and install all updates including SP1. Continuing, when I installed some games, the computer either spontaniously restarts or freezes.

The error shown when this happens is ACPI error (found in the computer management event viewer). error message is "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 instablity."

I have run every scan disk, surface scan, virus scan, and HD utility (from WD) that I can think of or find.

Some specs on this computer...
AMD Duron 950
Spacewalker mobo w/ via chipset
Phoenix Bios
250W PS
768 MB PC133 Ram
HDD 80GB WD Caviar (new) 7200RPM 8MB Cache
HDD 40GB IBM (old) 7200RPM 8MB Cache
Please ask if I missed anything.

Please offer any assistance you can... we are desperate to get this computer back up and running.

Thank you!
DuraMax

10-15-2003, 11:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
duramax Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Bosie Posts: 69	See today's most popular deals at » ACPI error in Windows XP, HELP!! My friend recently purchased a new HD (WD Caviar 80GB) I partitioned the drive, Formated NTFS, Installed WinXP, and proceeded to download and install all updates including SP1. Continuing, when I installed some games, the computer either spontaniously restarts or freezes. The error shown when this happens is ACPI error (found in the computer management event viewer). error message is "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 instablity." I have run every scan disk, surface scan, virus scan, and HD utility (from WD) that I can think of or find. Some specs on this computer... AMD Duron 950 Spacewalker mobo w/ via chipset Phoenix Bios 250W PS 768 MB PC133 Ram HDD 80GB WD Caviar (new) 7200RPM 8MB Cache HDD 40GB IBM (old) 7200RPM 8MB Cache Please ask if I missed anything. Please offer any assistance you can... we are desperate to get this computer back up and running. Thank you! DuraMax __________________ My system specs AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (Volcano 8) 21" Flat CRT Monitor GeForce FX 5600 256MB 8X AGP 768 MB DDR PC2100 WinTV-FM Tuner Card (with remote) 220GB Hard Drive 5 fan HD cooler DVD+/-RW RAM CDRW Drive DVD Rom Vantec 84.1CFM case fan Wireless Keyboard & Mouse Dobly Digital 6.1 Surround Last edited by duramax : 10-15-2003 at 02:36 PM.