Hi, first post here, directed here by southernlady.
My system started to become unstable a few days ago, and in the middle of a system restore, I had a power disruption (the plug got knocked
), and obviously windows then had problems. I ended up doing a complete reformat.
At the moment I only have a few programs on it, but it's still restarting on random occasions (usually, it seems, when i'm downloading).
I'm not too bad with computers, but this is where I start getting stuck! I've been to the event viwer, and have the following:
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.
I
believe I saw this message a few times when I was investigating just before the reformat.
After that is:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x100000d1 (0x00000400, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xf83b9a96). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini011906-02.dmp.
I can find the minidump, but am unable to read it.
When I investigated the first message in google, I found the following page, which seems to point to a BIOS problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;317513
As the pc is 4 years old, I guess that could be possible. However, a BIOS update is something I have never attempted, and makes me very nervous.
It's an Evesham Athlon 1.06 running Windows XP SP2
I would appreciate any ideas or help.