Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:27:34 -0500 From: "cmustard@nyc.rr.com" <cmustard@nyc.rr.com> To: q_dolan@yahoo.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new install of 5.2 ISO aft hour system freeze cold reboot onlyoption Message-ID: <184670-220041422212734947@M2W052.mail2web.com>
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> Everything runs fine for about an hour and a half then everything freeze= s (=20 > doesnt recognize keyboard, mouse, anything etc ) and i have to do a cold= =20 > reboot ( ouch! )=2E Do you have X running or any additional cards/devices/drivers in use in the machine when this occurs? Which ethernet are you using etc=2E -with X running or not, the only possibly 'non-standard' thing running is the 4-way usb/multimeida kvm switch i'm using=2E (iogear) but other than being a half-assed cheap switch it's working correctly and doesnt' seem to= have anything to do with this=2E I have 2 onboard nics, a 3-com and nvida built in but i'm using a SMC (Accton|SMC2-1211TX) which is working fine, also seems to be unrelated=2E > I do believe this to be related to ACPI but have no proof=2E=20 Does this still happen with ACPI disabled? - good question, i have been trying to track this down to bios or other settings or issues before running the kernel with ACPI permently disabled but that may do it=2E I'll boot tonight with it off and see if that helps= =2E >Having ACPI enabled can also cause interrupt related problems in some configurations=2E - do you mean disabling ACPI in the kernel when it asks if you want to permanetly disable?=20 ------------- I also recieved this answer from a user: In bios=20 Disable power management options=2E=20 Set operation system option to other, or just not ms/windows,=20 disable all plug-n-play options=2E=20 I did this last night and it ran for 2 hours without incident=2E (had to go out, didn't want to take the chance of it freezing up when not home, so i shutdown) but it did run for 2 hours with no problems and did not freeze up=2E thanks for the responses -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web=2Ecom/ =2E
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