Windows XP and system rebooting probem!


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I have Windows XP Pro and am having problems with the computer automatically restarting when playing games and doing a few other things. I checked the event log and these are the errors im getting.

AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to read from an illegal IO port address (0xcfc), which lies in the 0xcf8 - 0xcff protected address range. This could lead to system instability. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance.

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000c2 (0x00000003, 0x81ebdff0, 0x821b29b0, 0x821b2970). A dump was saved in: C:WINDOWSMinidumpMini012102-01.dmp.

My Setup:

Abit KG7 MOBO

Athlon 1.4 GHZ Proc

512 meg Crucial DDR Memory

Winfast GeForce3 Ti200 64 meg DDR

WD 1000BB 100 gig Hdd 7200 rpm

Maxtor Diamondmaxplus 40 gig 7200

Linksys 10/100 ethernet adapter

Turtle Beach Montego A3d sound card

Toshiba DVD-ROM

Smart and Friendly SCSI 8x32 burner

IF ANYONE HAS SOME ADVICE PLEASE HELP OUT!!! Thanks.

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i had this problem too. the culprit.. the video card..

i did an install over top of WinME when i'd try to play anything with moving motion.. games.. videos.. anything.. the comp would lock up and restart. But after a clean install, thing worked great..

so, my advice.

make sure vid drivers are current. which i thing yours will be with a geforce3 ti-200 (i had a riva tnt2)

do a clean install of XP

but now that i've typed this out.. i see that your errors say nothing about video card.. so scratch my advice down to clean install of XP :)

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I do believe that it is a video card problem, but I'm not sure exactly how to fix it, is there any way to do it without having to reformat? I guess I don't mind doing it at all, I have a thousand times, but I would rather not at this point in time becuz of my current setup. Ahem.....I won't say more about that, lets just say reformatting isn't that great of an idea right now.

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I have this problem! I play games and my computer restarts, It only started happening recently sorta. I think.

and it seemed to start after I uninstalled one of my video drivers thinking I didn't need it anymore. It seems that I need two installed or something to make it work. They are unofficial drivers for Radeon 7200. Is the new unrealeased driver for the Radeon any better than the original on the ati website?

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It could be a misbehaving video card, but the first AMLI: ACPI error indicates otherwise.

It looks like your mainboard BIOS (which may be misbehaving on your system) is causing the problem via ACPI. If you can upgrade or rollback (revert) to a different BIOS on your motherboard which is compatible with Windows XP or 2000, I would do this. Alternately, the BIOS eeprom may be bad, and a new hardware BIOS (contact the mainboard mfg) should cost around $35. The error says that xCF8-CFF is a reserved I/O address range (which it is) for the MOTHERBOARD. IF the BIOS is causing the problem by trying to read the motherboard I/O reserved addresses, you have a hardware problem/conflict with the BIOS/motherboard and ACPI OS (Windows XP). [Probable incompatibility or BIOS/motherboard ACPI implementation error.] One possible solution: Use XP as an APM pc. Either reinstall your OS with APM set in the BIOS or convert your ACPI PC HAL to a Standard PC HAL (make sure APM is set in BIOS after the conversion).

If you want to find out more about blue screen errors, read the following.

Hey, once you actually do the following, you will be an expert on system errors/problems . . .

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;Q314084

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;Q314103

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;Q265879

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