From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 13:27:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6613116A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:27:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay3.softcomca.com (relay3.softcomca.com [168.144.1.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF9443D53 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:27:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmustard@nyc.rr.com) Received: from M2W052.mail2web.com ([168.144.251.159]) by relay3.softcomca.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:27:34 -0500 Message-ID: <184670-220041422212734947@M2W052.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Originating-IP: 64.74.62.135 X-URL: http://mail2web.com/ From: "cmustard@nyc.rr.com" To: q_dolan@yahoo.com.au Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:27:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jan 2004 21:27:34.0834 (UTC) FILETIME=[8D16E920:01C3E12E] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new install of 5.2 ISO aft hour system freeze cold reboot onlyoption X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: cmustard@nyc.rr.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:27:37 -0000 > 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