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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: jon996 on October 27, 2004, 14:20

Title: bios problem?
Post by: jon996 on October 27, 2004, 14:20

heloo all,

 i was just skimming thru the event viewer and i came across about 30errors...all were the same thing..

AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to write to an illegal IO port address (0x70), which lies in the 0x70 - 0x71 protected address range. This could lead to system instability. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance.

do i need to update bios?

jon ::)

Title: Re:bios problem?
Post by: Simon on October 27, 2004, 15:01

If your computer is otherwise running OK, I would be wary of updating your BIOS, as this can be fraught with danger, if things happen to go wrong.  Hopefully one of the techies will be able to help you better.

Title: Re:bios problem?
Post by: jon996 on October 27, 2004, 15:03

yeah everything is working ok. my pc isnt instable or anything it just annoys me !
 :)

Title: Re:bios problem?
Post by: TR on October 27, 2004, 15:34

Probably a bios update, but as Simon "says"  ;D leave alone if not sure about flashing the Bios  ;)

What does it say in the Event viewer under ACPI?

Title: Re:bios problem?
Post by: jon996 on October 27, 2004, 15:36

tht is wot the error is...ACPI

AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to write to an illegal IO port address (0x70), which lies in the 0x70 - 0x71 protected address range. This could lead to system instability. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance.

Title: Re:bios problem?
Post by: Sandra on October 27, 2004, 15:44

XP logs the slightest error it finds, 99.9% of the time it doesnt affect anything. Just ignore it Jon, unless it starts crashing or not doing something it should  :)

Title: Re:bios problem?
Post by: TR on October 27, 2004, 15:46

Google:

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I have seen this once before. What I found out is that these errors will occur with XP and an older BIOS. Something to do with the way a bios is programmed. The Shuttle ak12 is a older motherboard and has been discontinued. This last BIOS they have for it is from June 2001 and I doubt they are going to release an update for it. You can ensure you BIOS is the latest version but beyond that the best I can say for now is that if you are noticing no problems with your system then just ignore these errors.

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Title: Re:bios problem?
Post by: Sandra on October 27, 2004, 15:50

Sandra :

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XP logs the slightest error it finds, 99.9% of the time it doesnt affect anything. Just ignore it Jon, unless it starts crashing or not doing something it should  :)

 ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re:bios problem?
Post by: TR on October 27, 2004, 15:56

:bart:  :P  :peep:

Title: Re:bios problem?
Post by: jon996 on October 27, 2004, 16:02

cheers
 :wahh: :splat: