Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Jul 1999 10:52:06 -0500 (CDT) | From | Thomas Molina <> | Subject | Re: GPF, Oops on system halt |
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I suppose it could be a processor-specific thing, but I'm leaning towareds a BIOS/CPU interaction. My system is a K6/350 in a TMC motherboard which exhibited this problem. Walter Hoffman posted a message to this list awhile back which included an APM patch which switched the processor to real mode before doing the power down. It completely solved a similar problem I had.
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> >> > Power down. > >> > general protection fault: f000 > >> > CPU: 0 > >> > EIP: 0050:[<000089c5>] > >> > EFLAGS: 00010046 > > > I'm guessing that it's a buggy BIOS APM implementation, as the > > EIP value isn't in the kernel (I'm guessing it's in the BIOS, I > > don't know much about these things); either that or we have > > buggy power down code -- I suspect the former as I recall seeing > > stuff on l-k about this before -- try a search of the archives. > > I'm wondering if the above is a processor-specific bug... > > I have two systems with IDENTICAL motherboards, hard drives, etc, > which differ ONLY in the processor - one has an Intel P266, the other > an AMD K6-2/350, and the latter is showing this problem where the > former isn't - and the CMOS settings are identical in all other > respects...
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