Error STOP: 0x000000A5

[technical1]

Hi,
I recently installed a intel network card driver on my Compaq DL580 server, this however crashed my server.

Now i get the following error:
STOP: 0x000000A5
The ACPI Bios in this system is not fully compliant to the specification. Please read the readme.txt for possible workarounds, or contact your system vendor for an updated bios.

I can restart the server in safe mode okay, but in normal mode it hangs after the windows 2000 logo loads.

Any ideas on how to resolve this problem?

Regards,
Vinay

 

[victorv]

hi,
I belive the driver is not for this device or you are
installing the proper driver but for another OS.

1) shutdown the machine and remove the card.

2) power on machine and delete card or confirm that
the missing device has been removed.

3) Reboot machine and verify that the nic driver caused
the problem. If all OK, shutdown, reinsert CARD and fire.

4) If the system had recognized by itself the driver,
probably it will repeat the error: try to choose a right
driver for it; if you had choosen driver, try to choose
the right one .

5) if this is a second nic, when machine gives a yellow
nic in device manager, try to download driver from
windows update, right-clicking the yellow device.

bye

 

[Hooyah]

Hello...

There are a couple of things you can look into...

1) Is your BIOS the most recent?
2) You can start in Debug mode and see which .sys file it bombs on..
3) You can also try it in a different slot...longshot, but sometimes this can be an issue.

Good luck

 

[technical1]

Hi Hooyah,
I contacted Compaq/HP and they gave me the latest BIOS firmware. I applied this update, but the problem did not disappear.

If i identify the .sys file, what can I then do?

Regards,
Vinay