crash.

[leefish]

my pc crashes when trying to install programs going to
event viewer this tells me i need a bios update..error
messages i get are ....amli.acpi.bios is attempting to
read from an illigal 10 port at address 0x70. 0x71 which
is protected address would this be wright..

 

[Tom Swift]

Possibly. See this article from the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Error Message: ACPI BIOS Is Attempting to Write to Illegal IO Port Address
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q283/6/49.asp&NoWebContent=1

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Tom Swift