ACPI BIOS is attempting to write to an illegal IO port address

[Guest]

This is on an older machine running recently installed xp home. The old bios
is trying to write to a port blocked by xp. Other than upgrading the bios,
is there a fix or a work around?

 

[Chuck]

The politically correct answer is No, you need to get a BIOS update.
It may be that you can defeat the ACPI functions in BIOS with BIOS options.
Another complication maybe defeating ACPI in windows, and possibly switching
to a non ACPI "HAL". This "used" to work in earlier versions of XP. I don't
know about Home, Media Edition, or SP2. The problem also occurs with server
2003, according to the MS knowledge base.

 

[Noozer]

This is on an older machine running recently installed xp home. The old
bios
is trying to write to a port blocked by xp. Other than upgrading the
bios,
is there a fix or a work around?

Yes!

Click a button. When the screen opens, type in your answer. Once done it's
gone!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply. I'll try wrasslin' with the bios.