ACPIEC system error

[Nigel Cuthbert]

Can you help?

Laptop is giving regular system error message, which constantly repeats itself very rapidly when it occurs!

\Device\ACPIEC: the embedded controller (EC) hardware didn't respond in timeout period.  This may indicate an error in EC hardware or firmware or possibly poorly designed BIOS which access EC in unsafe manner.  The EC driver will retry the failed transaction if possible.

This is happening on an Acer Laptop purchased six months ago - running Windows XP

How do I solve this problem!!??

Thankyou

Jo Cuthbert
nigelcuthbert at lineone.net