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win xp - attempt to write to read only memory

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jebus0

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Jun 23, 2002
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Hello,
My mainboard is a k7vma, and I upgraded from winme to winxp pro about a month ago. I occasionally get a blue screen of death error when copying files to a secondary hard drive installed. The error message is as follows:

"An attempt was made to write to read only memory ....
STOP: 0x000000BE (0xC66FF000, 0x1EA51161, 0xF769E9CC, 0x0000000B)"
(although the first three hex values in the brackets are different each time)

In my event log, I always have the following two errors:
1)
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.
2)
AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to write to an illegal IO port address (0xcf8), which lies in the 0xcf8 - 0xcff protected address range. This could lead to system instability. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance.

When I tracked these down, the microsoft pages informed me to upgrade my BIOS, I am now running the latest version of this mainboard's bios (k7vma10e), but about 8 hours after flashing the bios, I got the same error again while trying to copy some files.

I'm out of ideas here, the stop error message suggests I disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing, but which options are safe to disable? There's also a memory caching option on each of my hard drives when I check their properties through explorer, is this the option I should disable? Is it possible that I need to re-install xp before the new bios settings can take effect?

Please let me know if anyone has had a similar problem and found a solution, or where I can keep looking, because this is really starting to annoy me a lot.

Thanks for any help
-s
 
A Stop 0xBE message might occur after installing a faulty device driver, system service, or firmware. If a Stop message lists a driver by name, disable, remove, or roll back the driver to correct the problem. If disabling or removing drivers resolves the issues, contact the manufacturer about a possible update. Using updated software is especially important for multimedia applications, antivirus scanners, DVD playback, and CD mastering tools.

Check your hardware with the hcl this is one of the most common problems when using xp or 2k. Microsoft will not help you fix problem if you hardware is not on the hcl
 
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