When this first happened, I sent the drive to a tech and he said it needed
more ram, so it was upgraded to 552 mb. Didnt fix it tho. The puter has more
than enough system to run sims. I'm going to chk the graghics drivers and
such and will get back to you. As a side note, there is something that I find
very strange. My main drive is denoted as C: However there is another drive
in the My computer area denoted as D: Didnt always used to be there. It shows
7mb of storage with 4mb free. If you try to access it there is nothing there,
yet diskdefrag says there is. I Dunno.

"yogi" wrote:

> this may very well be an issue with your graphics card drivers/hardware ..
> are you using the one that comes with this system or some other one. It would
> also help if you would tell me how much RAM do you have installed. Another
> thing that you may want to try would be to check to see the game specs(sims
> the one that you mentioned does have very high system requirements).
>
> yogi
>
> "Larry" wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > "yogi" wrote:
> >
> > > the problem would be better understood if you could provide us with your
> > > system specs
> > >
> > > yogi
> > >
> > > "Larry" wrote:Hp pavilion XT983, windows Xp home edition
> > >
> > > > My computer will hang if I attemt to use windows media player, try to run an
> > > > outside game such as sims, or try to run a game online, such as web sites
> > > > like gamesville. My system event viewer shows an error message of : AMLI:
> > > > ACPI BIOS is attempting to read from an illeagal address (0xcfc), which lies
> > > > in the (0xcf8-0xcff) protected range. I checked the HP site as recommened,
> > > > and there are no bios updates available. I am not super good at system
> > > > workings, but not a complete idiot either. This is happening even after a
> > > > complete system format and reboot, and all updates installed. everything else
> > > > seems too work fine. HELP !