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re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Friday, August 30, 2002 at 10:27 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Youtongfu
(2 messages posted)
Well I tried a new stick of memory and still no luck. I tested the Memory with Norton
Utilities 2000 and the test failed several times in fact every time giving me a failure
message at address 233865216 and other numbers in that area. Anyway then I tested
the new stick which is a 256MB of Crucial and it also failed. OK is there somethin
physically wrong w/ the MoBo OR.... I am sorry that I forgot to mension this and
I hope it will ring a few bells. Checking the System Event Viewer Log I get this
error message:
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.
Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance.
So I contacted some folks that sell BIOS upgrades and he seems to thing this will
help for a wapping price of $70.00. Shouldnt I just get a new MoBo for that price
or does anyone know where I can get a free upgrade, if this is even the problem.
I am tired and running outta mony shotgunning this problem. Anyway I don't have an
amprobe to test the downstream but I guess the next approach is a Bios upgrade then
power supply then the trash can and build another one??? Thanks a real lot for all
your valuable input it is much appreciated...
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 12:48 pm, VinceO wrote:
>You mentioned "it is not the memory... the reason is Win98 functions flawlessly!!!"
>Do not be misled. A RAM failure can be fatal to one operating system without being
>fatal to others which use a different memory layout. For example, I looked at the
>crash dumps from the system mentioned in http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/r1029856919.
>The system ran Win98SE and Linux, but crashed with WinXP. I thought for sure this
>would be a software problem, but it turned out to be bad RAM. If I had your system,
>I would definitely run a RAM exerciser like memtest86.
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