MS XP and ACPI events 4 and 5

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On my Compaq Deskpro, Microsoft XP has become unstable 3 times now.
Keyboard and mouse become so sluggish that the only way I can shutdown is by
pulling the plug, and a high-pitch whine is emitted.

The event viewer found that it was an ACPI_ERR_AMLI_ILLEGAL_IO_READ_FATAL
error, as found in this MS KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;283649

I've read up a little on the problem; sounds like the BIOS isn't ACPI
compliant (per Microsoft). The recommended solution seems to be not to
upgrade the BIOS (the machine is old enough that I doubt there's a new
enough BIOS version anyway), but rather to change the Hardware Abstraction
Layer to the standard one.

Looking at the event long, this event apparently *always* happens at boot up
(twice in succession, almost immediately), but only recently have such
events made my machine unstable. (That doesn't happen after bootup, but
rather hours later.) I suspect that some application is causing the fatal
instability. Is there any way I can figure out what that is, instead of
changing the HAL?

(It's not just my machine; I checked two others in my office, and they have
the same errors on bootup, though possibly not the fatal instabilities.)

I know, the easiest thing would be to get a new machine, but we've had two
thefts, so these old boxes are attractive---the thief isn't interested in
them.

 

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Turn off ACPI powersavigs mode in your BIOS (if the
option is available, or maybe it's set to APM and needs
to be changed to ACPI!!!!

2nd thing try to disable all power savings modes in XP!





>-----Original Message-----
>On my Compaq Deskpro, Microsoft XP has become unstable 3
times now.
>Keyboard and mouse become so sluggish that the only way
I can shutdown is by
>pulling the plug, and a high-pitch whine is emitted.
>
>The event viewer found that it was an
ACPI_ERR_AMLI_ILLEGAL_IO_READ_FATAL
>error, as found in this MS KB article:
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-
us;283649
>
>I've read up a little on the problem; sounds like the
BIOS isn't ACPI
>compliant (per Microsoft). The recommended solution
seems to be not to
>upgrade the BIOS (the machine is old enough that I doubt
there's a new
>enough BIOS version anyway), but rather to change the
Hardware Abstraction
>Layer to the standard one.
>
>Looking at the event long, this event apparently
*always* happens at boot up
>(twice in succession, almost immediately), but only
recently have such
>events made my machine unstable. (That doesn't happen
after bootup, but
>rather hours later.) I suspect that some application is
causing the fatal
>instability. Is there any way I can figure out what
that is, instead of
>changing the HAL?
>
>(It's not just my machine; I checked two others in my
office, and they have
>the same errors on bootup, though possibly not the fatal
instabilities.)
>
>I know, the easiest thing would be to get a new machine,
but we've had two
>thefts, so these old boxes are attractive---the thief
isn't interested in
>them.
>
>
>.
>

 

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"Zagan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:847901c48521$4f37d2d0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Turn off ACPI powersavigs mode in your BIOS (if the
> option is available, or maybe it's set to APM and needs
> to be changed to ACPI!!!!

I haven't looked into the BIOS, but I'm quite sure from other posts and
reading on the Web that this is not possible with this BIOS.

> 2nd thing try to disable all power savings modes in XP!

OK.

>
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >On my Compaq Deskpro, Microsoft XP has become unstable 3
> times now.
> >Keyboard and mouse become so sluggish that the only way
> I can shutdown is by
> >pulling the plug, and a high-pitch whine is emitted.
> >
> >The event viewer found that it was an
> ACPI_ERR_AMLI_ILLEGAL_IO_READ_FATAL
> >error, as found in this MS KB article:
> >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-
> us;283649
> >
> >I've read up a little on the problem; sounds like the
> BIOS isn't ACPI
> >compliant (per Microsoft). The recommended solution
> seems to be not to
> >upgrade the BIOS (the machine is old enough that I doubt
> there's a new
> >enough BIOS version anyway), but rather to change the
> Hardware Abstraction
> >Layer to the standard one.
> >
> >Looking at the event long, this event apparently
> *always* happens at boot up
> >(twice in succession, almost immediately), but only
> recently have such
> >events made my machine unstable. (That doesn't happen
> after bootup, but
> >rather hours later.) I suspect that some application is
> causing the fatal
> >instability. Is there any way I can figure out what
> that is, instead of
> >changing the HAL?
> >
> >(It's not just my machine; I checked two others in my
> office, and they have
> >the same errors on bootup, though possibly not the fatal
> instabilities.)
> >
> >I know, the easiest thing would be to get a new machine,
> but we've had two
> >thefts, so these old boxes are attractive---the thief
> isn't interested in
> >them.
> >
> >
> >.
> >