Topic: bios problem?

[jon996]

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

[Simon]

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.

[jon996]

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

[TR]

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

What does it say in the Event viewer under ACPI?

[jon996]

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.

[Sandra]

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  

[TR]

Google:

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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[Sandra]

Sandra :

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  

 

[TR]

:bart:    :peep:

[jon996]

cheers