ACPI booting problem

[dreamerman]

I saw a "init hw failure" message while booting up my Mint 14 Cinnamon 64 bit. So I went into system log and found ACPI warnings below. I am booting it from a flash drive (created using live CD). Running it on Acer Veriton Dual Core. Can anyone point me the right way to fix it?

Apr 14 22:06:58 veriton-mint kernel: [ 44.716035] mei 0000:00:03.0: >init hw failure.
Apr 14 22:06:58 veriton-mint kernel: [ 44.716154] mei 0000:00:03.0: >initialization failed.
Apr 14 22:06:58 veriton-mint kernel: [ 44.716221] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000460-0x000000000000047f SystemIO conflicts with Region \TCOI 1 (20120320/utaddress-251)
Apr 14 22:06:58 veriton-mint kernel: [ 44.716241] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
Apr 14 22:06:58 veriton-mint kernel: [ 44.716243] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting iTCO_wdt
Apr 14 22:06:58 veriton-mint kernel: [ 44.716247] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f SystemIO conflicts with Region \PM2S 1 (20120320/utaddress-251)
Apr 14 22:06:58 veriton-mint kernel: [ 44.716252] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
Apr 14 22:06:58 veriton-mint kernel: [ 44.716255] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000480-0x00000000000004bf SystemIO conflicts with Region \GPO2 1 (20120320/utaddress-251)
Apr 14 22:06:58 veriton-mint kernel: [ 44.716260] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000480-0x00000000000004bf SystemIO conflicts with Region \GPO_ 2 (20120320/utaddress-251)
Apr 14 22:06:58 veriton-mint kernel: [ 44.716265] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
Apr 14 22:06:58 veriton-mint kernel: [ 44.716267] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich

[dreamerman]

I just realised the error came about after I changed from the default nouveau driver to the NVIDIA proprietary-tested driver under Control Panel > Software Source > Aditional Drivers. That opened a big can of worms. There are many posts regarding this and from what I can see, it is still unresolved.

I changed back to default nouveau driver and everything works as normal. That just means I won't be able to fully utilise all bells and whistles my NVIDIA 210 has to offer but the default driver will have to do for now. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.