CD-R and windows problem.

[mrCide]

I just installed a 24x lite-on burner in my girlfriend's PC, it's a duron 750 with XP on it. Now she gets sudden restarts, and she can't, for instance, install a game (diablo) anymore. restarts during installation. event log shows errors similar to this

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.

After looking it up it people recommend updating the BIOS and/or changing computer from acpi to Standard PC or whatever in device manager. I don't want to do anything this drastic if i don't have to... anyone have any suggestions? firmware on the cd-r is latest fwiw.

TIA

 

[AnAndAustin]

Well Lite-On are one of the best and most popular CDRW drive manus, known to be very unproblematic. I suggest you try the drive in a diff IDE lead, maybe even swpa Master/Slave. Generally CDRW like to be the Master on the Secondary IDE channel and should have DMA mode enabled. It could be a faulty drive or else perhaps your PSU is having trouble, try the above and the drive in another PC if poss.

 

[amdskip]

This sounds like an undersized power supply or just one going bad. Try running the computer without the burner on.

 

[mrCide]

well, had a cdrom in before, never had a problem before the cd-r isntall..

i'm going to try to put it on a different ide lead or some such... any other suggestions?