From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 18:22:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90000106566B for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:22:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149CA8FC0C for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q5EIMSda048222; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:22:29 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:22:28 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Lynn Steven Killingsworth In-Reply-To: <20120613234107.B85DF10656D3@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20120615040137.S46641@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20120613234107.B85DF10656D3@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hwpstate0 set frequency err 6 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: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:22:32 -0000 In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 419, Issue 9, Message: 2 On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:33:49 -0400 Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: > This is the fourth time I have installed FreeBSD while learning the in's and > out's. I have a new mainboard this time (ASUS M5A97 EVO + AMD FX 8120.) > I have set up dual booting because of a few legacy apps. When the boot of > OS gets to the login prompt I begin to get the error message 'hwpstate0 set > frequency err 6' > During installation my super-workstation started to run as though it were > getting the absolutely maximum stress test. The fans on my new Corsair H80 > started to whine as well. The 'stress test' effect starts the three next > times I have booted so I am not booting into FreeBSD at the moment. > Any advice? Only that it seems perhaps similar or related to some threads in May on freebsd-stable@ subject: "[stable 9] broken hwpstate calls" that may or may not have yet resulted in a patch you could try. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-May/thread.html Thread continues in June, as a perhaps more general p-state discussion. > Thanks Lynn Steven Killingsworth cheers, Ian