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07-03-2004 at 04:37:53 AM

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Hi folks

I have a K7S5A running XP Pro & Athlon XP2000+. A couple of days ago
I got given an old SCSI scanner. Before I plugged the scsi card in, I
went into the BIOS to disable COM & LPT ports, in order to free up
some IRQs just in case. I rebooted & got a STOP BSOD telling me my
BIOS was not ACPI compliant.

After much swearing & mucking about and resetting BIOS to default
values, I got XP back up. However, I've now found that if I disable
the LPT port in the BIOS I get the BSOD again.

It seems I can't disable the printer port anymore, or I get the blue
screen again. I've tried uninstalling the LPT port in Windoze,
shutting down, and back into BIOS again. But each time I disable LPT
(which is currently set to ECP + EPP) I get the BSOD.

I'm running the last HoneyX BIOS, which has been fine for almost a
year now. 512 DDR Ram.

Has anyone else had this problem?

cheers

-DaveB

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