Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:29:55 -0700 | From | Jesse Allen <> | Subject | Re: Working nforce2, was Re: Fixes for nforce2 hard lockup, apic, io-apic, udma133 covered |
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:18:27PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > > The thing that strikes me funny is that you get no crashes with the > updated BIOS and Disconnect on, but without the updated BIOS we have > to turn disconnect off with athcool or the patch? This makes me think > that there is some voodoo going on in the BIOS update that they aren't > saying, surprise surprise,
Yes, it is weird. I've now asked shuttle for more information.
> or something is just slowing down the time > it takes for it to crash. I say this because I have gone 5+ days > without any of the patches from these threads, acpi apic lapic > enabled, and CPU disconnect on as stated by athcool. This was with > much stress testing, idle time, etc. One day I just ran a grep that I > have done probably 30 times and boom, hang.
I hope this is not the case! The one/two grep test worked flawlessly, but now if it's delayed, then I can't do that anymore.
(but at least I have the bios option now! heh)
I suggest you reference the Shuttle AN35 12-05-2003 BIOS, and maybe Bob's MSI, when you talk to Asus. If they can do it, then Asus should be able as well.
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