What does this error message mean?

[Miramonti]

WinXP, Event viewer:

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.

???

Thx.

 

[Trashman]

this doesn't explain much here but......link....
or this one...link.

 

[Miramonti]

Microsoft page:
Status

Behavior is by design.


hehe, thank you microsoft.

Thanks for the info Trashman. I just found some others with XP who have had this problem also but neither could resolve it - but neither had resulting problems from it either... I'm using an abit vt6x4 p3 mobo and they stopped updating the bios', but atleast it looks like its something I can live with, without it creating other problems.