Author Topic: Start up error message (Read 725 times)

Simon · « **on:** March 06, 2005, 16:58 »

Most times, when I start my PC, I get this error message:-

Nothing seems to be amiss, and everything seems to be running OK. I have just updated to Norton Internet Security 2005, but it was coming up before that. Can anyone shed any light on what this could be? I can't even establish which program has been terminated. Spyware scans all clean.

Sandra · « **Reply #1 on:** March 06, 2005, 19:26 »

Have a look in the event viewer log and double click on the fault that occurs at the time the message appears Simon.
That may give some more information on whats happening :?

Simon · « **Reply #2 on:** March 06, 2005, 20:57 »

Well, I'm still none the wiser, but I have found these four errors:-

The asapiW2k service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.

The Fujitsu USB ADSL Loader service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

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.

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

The top two don't occur every time, which would fit in with the frequency of the error message, so I would guess it's one of them. The 'Fujitsu USB ADSL Loader service' error must fix itself, because the modem always starts, probably by rebooting itself, so by a process of elimiation, I am working on the theory that it the asapiW2k thing which is the culprit. All I need to do now, is find out what it is. It seems strange that it appears to be related to W2K, which has never been on this machine.

The two AMLI: ACPI BIOS errors have been there for ages, and always appear on the event log at bootup.

chorleydave · « **Reply #3 on:** March 06, 2005, 21:26 »

Probably not much help, Simon, but I have the file asapiW2k.sys on my "test" PC, which I (this week) running Windows 2K. However, I can't find it on my 98SE machine. It is actually asapiW2k.sys and appears to be a driver, although what it is supposed to drive, I don't know.

Simon · « **Reply #4 on:** March 06, 2005, 21:46 »

Mmmm... strangely, the file doesn't appear on my machine, so I wonder where the error message is coming from?