Apm bios not found and other issues with linspire

IE: stack overflow at line: 0 Today, I noticed the following issue (IE only, of course). Running a page that does some comet (via “XHR GET” for long-polling), I got the following warning: “stack overflow at line: 0′ and the application stopped working…
I did some google-searches and found some “hints” that said I should disable my third-party tools for IE etc. That sounds strange…
In fact the problem was the odd cache behavior of the IE. The XML (from the “long-polling servlet”) was cached and its JS was executed; also the application itself started the polling too, so I (no IE) ran into this odd issue…
Changing the server-side code – that is responsible to render the XML – to have no cache rules (e.g.”Cache-Control”:”no-cache”) did the trick. It worked again. Of course, on your “comet output” you potentially don’t want cache to be present…
So fixing the cache solved the issue. There was no need to disable Norton or any other third-party tool…

If you are under MS Windows XP, and after you shut down the machine it hangs at the screen stating "It is now safe to turn off your computer" than this may fix your problem:

This issue arrises when you have a computer that supports Advanced Power Management (APM). By default APM is not enabled in Windows. If the BIOS on yoursystem is set for APM, and you upgrade to Windows XP, you will receive the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" message when you shutdown at which point the computer stops responding.

To fix this issue:

1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. In Control Panel, click Performance and Maintenance, and then click Power Options.
3. Click the APM tab.
4. Check to select the Enable Advanced Power Management Support check box, and then click OK.

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Computer doesn’t power down when users shut down
In some cases, Windows XP’s Setup program can misidentify the power management scheme in a computer’s BIOS as Advanced Power Management (APM) instead of Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI). When this happens, users will notice that the computer no longer automatically powers down when they shut down Windows XP. Instead, they’ll see the message It Is Now Safe To Turn Off Your Computer and be forced to manually press the power button to turn off the computer.

You can verify this problem by checking the power management configuration in two places—Device Manager and the Control Panel. To quickly access Device Manager, select Start | Run, type Devmgmt.msc in the Open text box, and click OK. When you see the Device Manager window, locate and open the System Devices item. If Setup identified the system as having an APM-compliant BIOS, it will be listed as a Standard PC in the System Devices tree. (If it were identified as having an ACPI-compliant BIOS, you would see it listed here as a Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System.)

To check the power management configuration in the Control Panel, open the Control Panel from the Start menu. If the system is using Category View, select Performance And Maintenance and then click the Power Options icon. If the system is using Classic View, just click the Power Options icon. If Setup identified the system as having an APM-compliant BIOS, you’ll see an APM tab in the Power Options Properties dialog box. (If the system were identified as having an ACPI-compliant BIOS, you wouldn’t see an APM tab.)

You may be able to fix this problem with a BIOS update. To begin, check with the computer manufacturer’s Web site to see if it’s providing the latest BIOS update. If you’re troubleshooting an off-brand computer, you may be on your own as far as tracking down the BIOS update. Here’s how.

Once you obtain and install the BIOS update according to the manufacturer’s instructions, you must perform what I call a Refresh Installation, in which you reinstall Windows XP on top of an existing Windows XP installation. You must perform this reinstall operation because the power management features are tied to a special power management Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL). During the Refresh Installation procedure, Setup will completely redetect all installed hardware, including the updated BIOS, and rebuild the power management HAL as well as the part of the registry in which information about the installed hardware is stored.

Follow this link for instructions on how to fix this problem.
http://football-manager-blog.blogspot.com/2008/11/fm-09-football-manager-2009-xml-parsing.html
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Do factory reset

Linspire may have caused you to get a hard drive failure possibly. It may have one of the Linux bugs where it does hard drive seeks way too often and causes it to die out faster. These seem like the symptoms of a dieing hard drive.

If its four year old , maybe the anti virus protection you already had on it , would have expired.

You can download or run free antivirus scans from the following websites

http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

http://free.avg.com/



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proton

Try updating the BIOS. Seems there were some advanced power management improvements.

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The following changes were made to the A04 BIOS for the A06 BIOS: 1) APM issues device commands in SMM. 2) Fixed APM to issue power up/down commands to peripherals in SMM. 3) Turbo/Deturbo switching done in SMM. 4) Implemented <\> Turbo/Deturbo hot key. 5) Password checked after exiting Setup and before OS booting. 6) Fixed the problem with #9 GXE64 Video card losing its video at the end of POST. 7) Fixed the problem with WINICU having General Protection Failures. 8) Fixed the problem with Real Time Clock not being updated correctly when in Power Managed mode.

PROBLEM: During Windows installation the system displays a blue error screen reporting that the BIOS is not suitable for use with ACPI.

Solution :

If your system reports this error then reboot it and wait for the prompt about pressing F6 (to use other mass storage devices). At this point press F7 (not F6) so that setup will install APM power management in place of ACPI power management. Installation should then continue to completion successfully.


I hope this should resolve the issue for you.