dgsmith Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 We've got a vanilla XP system on our admin network which has suddenly developed a nice BSOD along the lines of the title of this thread. Having never seen this before, and given it mentions the BIOS, I tried the obvious things such as loading defaults, removing CMOS battery for ~10mins (it loaded safe mode once after reinserting, but then after a reboot the same BSOD appears), and i'm at a loss as to what it could be. We have reinstalled the BIOS with the latest version (whether that was an upgrade or the same version), yet this again hasn't helped. Could be looking at failed hardware? Could the BIOS be irrepairable? Technical information, as usual, is of no help whatsoever!!
srochford Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 How old is the motherboard? I haven't seen this message for ages - the last time was on a machine with a very old BIOS which had an ACPI/non-ACPI option. Could it just be a corrupt Windows install? Have you tried reimaging?
dgsmith Posted July 2, 2008 Author Posted July 2, 2008 How old is the motherboard? I haven't seen this message for ages - the last time was on a machine with a very old BIOS which had an ACPI/non-ACPI option. Could it just be a corrupt Windows install? Have you tried reimaging? Computer is 2yrs old, and many others from the batch are fine. Thing is, even when we go in to the recovery (it has a recovery partition), or load XP from disk, it'll go back to this BSOD - so we can't even reimage the machine!
SYNACK Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 Try swapping out the powersupply, if the control circutry is faulty the BIOS could be detecting this and disabling ACPI support that it knows it can't provide. I've had a couple of pcs that simply would not install Windows because the power supply was providing rubbish data to the motherboard.
flashsnaps Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 You should be able to re-image. Free way is to download the Ultimate boot cd, and boot off that disk. Theres a few free utilities for cloning on there, which are simply to use. Make sure you have a good functioning harddrive from an identical machine, to take the image from.
gshaw Posted July 2, 2008 Posted July 2, 2008 I've had that before and it was nothing to do with ACPI, was some weird bug in the BIOS that caused the BSOD if USB KB \ Mouse support were turned on. Just noticed you've done the CMOS reset (that fixed my prob at the time), and updated BIOS which helped us so maybe something else at play... tried other hardware out jsut in case something is causing it?
dgsmith Posted July 3, 2008 Author Posted July 3, 2008 Try swapping out the powersupply, if the control circutry is faulty the BIOS could be detecting this and disabling ACPI support that it knows it can't provide. I've had a couple of pcs that simply would not install Windows because the power supply was providing rubbish data to the motherboard. Just popped in another power supply and only hooked up the HDD and Motherboard - no change. You should be able to re-image. Free way is to download the Ultimate boot cd, and boot off that disk. Theres a few free utilities for cloning on there, which are simply to use. Make sure you have a good functioning harddrive from an identical machine, to take the image from. Can't boot from anything (including disk), so this may be difficult. I've had that before and it was nothing to do with ACPI, was some weird bug in the BIOS that caused the BSOD if USB KB \ Mouse support were turned on. Just noticed you've done the CMOS reset (that fixed my prob at the time), and updated BIOS which helped us so maybe something else at play... tried other hardware out jsut in case something is causing it? I've cleared the BIOS again and noticed that by default the USB kb/mouse setting is enabled, so decided to disable it and see what would happen. Unfortunately, again, no change! I managed to load Windows again after first boot, but going in to safe mode, yet a reboot again in normal Windows mode returns to this screen! I am at a loss, although I also agree it is very unlikely anything to do with ACPI (given other machines in this batch work fine, all same spec). Dave
dgsmith Posted July 11, 2008 Author Posted July 11, 2008 Noone got any more suggestions for this? Seems the most common remedies have been tried in vain!
themightymrp Posted September 24, 2010 Posted September 24, 2010 I had the exact same problem, in the end I found it to be a faulty memory module! Replaced the RAM stick and cured all problems, nothing to do with ACPI at all. Very confusing
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