From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 08:37:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37C71065688 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 08:37:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C928FC08 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 08:37:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.43]) by QMTA04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id N8cS1a00D0vp7WLA48dy50; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:37:58 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id N8dx1a0012P6wsM8R8dxa8; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:37:57 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=GWvMysky2HQA:10 a=T-wtnCATJI8A:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=ny2zzWUalbtrSJ_urR8A:9 a=eDebkPMcrWgoO3g2irmRdslRhFMA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C0CDEC941A; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 01:37:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 01:37:56 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Carl Message-ID: <20081003083756.GA23663@icarus.home.lan> References: <48E5C290.3000208@telus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48E5C290.3000208@telus.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel S3210SHLC motherboard and FreeBSD 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:37:58 -0000 On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:58:24PM -0700, Carl wrote: > I've had a couple of incidents where pressing the reset button actually > powers down the server for 5 seconds or so before automatically powering > back up. Not a big deal, but doesn't instill confidence in this > motherboard. This is common on Intel CPU/chipset boards. It has to do with one of a couple different things: 1) BIOS: CPU virtualisation support 2) BIOS: Thermal monitoring 3) BIOS: Other BIOS options which I can't remember I've seen this happen on Intel boards, as well as nVidia Socket 775 boards, and Asus boards. It's become "normal" in this day and age; otherwise, see if there's a BIOS upgrade (on Asus boards this usually fixes it; if you change any of those BIOS options, the hard power-off will happen once, but from that point on reset will behave like you expect). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |