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    Acer PCI conflict at boot

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by otmal, Jul 1, 2009.

  1. otmal

    otmal Newbie

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    Hi all,

    My 1.5 yrs old Acer laptop boots up with the following error message
    with no change to the system before.

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    ERROR
    Resource Conflict - PCI on Motherboard

    Bus: 0F, Device: 06, Function: 00

    Press F1; to resume
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    Model Extensa 4620
    Bios ver: 1.33

    Vista boots up fine after a long wait.
    Once login, I checked out the device manager.
    It shows both the "firewire 1394 port" and the "SD card reader port"
    not functioning.

    I have noticed that there is not much options within the Bios setup <F2>
    and no pci device disable/enabling is allowed.

    BIOS setting was reset to factory default, but complain of PCI conflict remains.

    The Bios is the latest ver 1.33 avail from Acer web.
    Vista is running with sp1.

    The warranty on the laptop has expired.

    Any suggestion of how to remedy the problem is greatly appreciated.
     
    otmal, Jul 1, 2009
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  2. elijahRW

    elijahRW Notebook Deity

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    Go into the bios and set the factory defaults.

    Report back if the problem persists.
     
    elijahRW, Jul 1, 2009
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  3. otmal

    otmal Newbie

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    yes, BIOS has been reset to factory defaults, but
    problem remains.
     
    otmal, Jul 1, 2009
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  4. billaboard

    billaboard Notebook Consultant

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    I know nothing about that particular machine, but on some machines here the firewire and card readers are part of the same chip.

    It might be worth looking on the Acer ftp site to see if there are later drivers for either of these, or newer mainboard drivers. What you want to try to achieve is to get the system to change in some sort of way so that it has to reconfigure itself from scratch.

    Maybe uninstall the firewire (1394) driver, reboot and see what happens.
     
    billaboard, Jul 1, 2009
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  5. techiediva

    techiediva Notebook Consultant

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    try removing the wireless card.
     
    techiediva, Jul 1, 2009
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  6. otmal

    otmal Newbie

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    removed the wireless card, boot with the same 'pci conflict' error.
     
    otmal, Jul 2, 2009
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  7. techiediva

    techiediva Notebook Consultant

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    looks like the mainboard is failing on you.
     
    techiediva, Jul 2, 2009
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  8. weinter

    weinter /dev/null

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    Try BackUp and reformat to confirm is it software issue or hardware issue.
    If it is hardware then...good luck.
     
    weinter, Jul 2, 2009
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