Comp Freezing, acpi errors

[Buggeroo]

Hi

First of all, my specs:

AMD K6-2 500Mhz
Acorp 5ali61 motherboard
HIS GeForce2 MX400 64 MB
ISA NoName NIC
PCI NoName Soundcard
Samsung 40GB HD


My prob is that every once in a while my comp freezes, I cannot do anything at all and am forced to reset. There is no error messages produced when this occurs, but every time the pc starts it logs an acpi error in the event-viewer. something like:

"ACPI BIOS is attempting to write to an illegal IO port address (0x4d1), which lies in the 0x4d0 - 0x4d1 protected address range. This could lead to system instability. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance"

I don't know if this could be causing the problem, but it is the only thing I have to go on right now.

I have tried disabling acpi in the bios, but that only makes Windows unable to start (just hangs during startup), also tried uninstalling acpi-driver in device manager, but that's apparently not possible.

Please Help

 

[echoecho]

look for a bios update, maybe a issue they fixed.

 

[Buggeroo]

I did that a long time ago. There hasn't been a new bios version for ages.
I guess thats how it is when your cheap hardware gets a little dated