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MS XP and ACPI events 4 and 5
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...B;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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