AMLI: ACPI BIOS.............

bigmouse64 · 30 Mar 2007 at 04:06

Hello there,

Recently I've been getting the following error with my computer:

AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to read from an illegal IO port address (0x21), which lies in the 0x20 - 0x21 protected address range. This could lead to system instability. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance.

Actually, my computer has been playing up a lot recently, it randomly crashes with my other hard drive (in sig), so I swapped the hard drives with an old IDE Samsung. Now it runs, and hasn't crashed as of yet, however when I try to format my SATA hard drive the setup crashes in the very early stages (blue screen, in DOS). Anyways, I have no idea what's going on.

I've upgraded the Award BIOS, and I like I said, it doesn't crash since I put this hard drive in, but I do want to put my WD Sata back in sometime, as this one is very slow at handling data.

I read somewhere that if you bend the sata cables a lot, it can effect the performance (I actually folded the wire a few times to make space for other things in the case), so I'm buying a new cable tomorrow and will try to format it again, I hope that is the problem.

I can't think of anything else I can do?

Any help would be greatly apreciated

t31os · 30 Mar 2007 at 12:33

Try another cable, then try another port.

bigmouse64 · 30 Mar 2007 at 17:07

Thanks, I'll try that tonight

bigmouse64 · 31 Mar 2007 at 16:52

Right, I tried a new cable and port, still no luck.

The system recognises the drive, and I actually installed Windows 98 on it. However, I turn off the computer and put the Windows XP disk in, I press 'any key' and it begins it's install, it says 'loading files (not copying)' etc, then it gets to 'setup starting windows', the lights on the keyboard go on and off, and it's crashed.

Any ideas?

bigmouse64 · 1 Apr 2007 at 15:18

Hello again.

Right, I formatted the drive, again, but when installing XP (during the blue screen stage), it asks me if there's any RAID or SCSI 3rd party software. Thankfully, I've got that on a CD you get bundled with the motherboard itself, it tells you to make a floppy, now I just need to install my old A:\.

And so it continues.....