I experience random lockups using my ECS K7VZA PCB 1.0 (KT133) w/ 750 Mhz Duron system. 300w power supply...640MB RAM that's checked out fine using RAM checking progs...newest 4 in 1s...newest detonators for my Nvidia GF2 MX200 32MB, newest drivers for my Cmedia 8738 sound card...no o/c at all on the system...it's running XP. Now, I got the idea from a post on here to check the events viewer and I saw two random occurances happening...one with DISK and one with ACPI....the DISK error did not occur during a lockup, but ACPI does every single time I lock up....here is the message...
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.
Now I got the latest BIOS and probably the last from my motherboard company, ECS. I can tell when this OS boots up and logs me in, in Event Viewer a specific manager logs about 15 times...right before that...a minute gap prior to those logs an ACPI error occurs which would be right around when I'd have to hit the reset button after a hard lock/freeze. I am for sure now it's not system temperature...because it can lock with the system being at complete idle completely at random. Sometimes it will lock cranking full blast, sometimes it will lock up while doing NOTHIGN, it can last from a few minutes to a few hours before a freeze. You'd figure temperature problems would have a definite amount of time it could last, and I doubt a lock from temperature problems causes an ACPI error to occur, but if it DOES, then correct me on this. It may still be temp, but I am thinking it may not be because I know Duron's can handle temps way above 40 C and this thing at reset doesn't even read 32-33 C....anyways, thanks if you can help, and thanks if ya cant and ya read anyways!
Andrew
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.
Now I got the latest BIOS and probably the last from my motherboard company, ECS. I can tell when this OS boots up and logs me in, in Event Viewer a specific manager logs about 15 times...right before that...a minute gap prior to those logs an ACPI error occurs which would be right around when I'd have to hit the reset button after a hard lock/freeze. I am for sure now it's not system temperature...because it can lock with the system being at complete idle completely at random. Sometimes it will lock cranking full blast, sometimes it will lock up while doing NOTHIGN, it can last from a few minutes to a few hours before a freeze. You'd figure temperature problems would have a definite amount of time it could last, and I doubt a lock from temperature problems causes an ACPI error to occur, but if it DOES, then correct me on this. It may still be temp, but I am thinking it may not be because I know Duron's can handle temps way above 40 C and this thing at reset doesn't even read 32-33 C....anyways, thanks if you can help, and thanks if ya cant and ya read anyways!
Andrew
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