On 5/13/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 08:48:59PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 5/12/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 08:02:25PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >> On 5/12/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> What kind of motherboard are you using?
ASUS A7V8X-X
> Have you verified that you're using the latest BIOS?
I doubt I am. The latest non-beta is 1013, 2004/09/09. The beta is
1014.002, 2005/06/28. From dmidecode:
BIOS Information
Vendor: Award Software, Inc.
Version: ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1007
Release Date: 11/13/2003
I am reluctant to upgrade the BIOS because if the process were to
fail, I would be out a motherboard, and the nearest computer store is
an hour's drive away -- and may not carry anything I would find useful.
I'd say your best bet is to update the BIOS. I don't understand how a
CPU could fail due to updating the BIOS.
You could try booting with the noapic and/or acpi=off kernel
parameters and see if that helps.
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