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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: ACPI on Tyan Motherboard
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:55:10PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> >>>Following up your suggestion that it is a hardware problem, I decided
> >>>to try updating the BIOS from version 2.10 to 2.14.  Now start up
> >>>produces lots of ACPI error messages.
> >...
> >>The 2.10 is the version of the PCI BIOS specification that your 
> >>motherboard
> >>BIOS supports.  It is unrelated to the version of your motherboard BIOS.
> >
> >NO.  His "2.10" above *IS* the version of his BIOS.  I know exactly what
> >version he had and has now.  He is correct about the extra ACPI error
> >verbage.
> 
> But why would FreeBSD tell me that the BIOS version is 2.10 when I just 
> installed version 2.14?  Is this something wrong with the bios update 
> features of this motherboard?  The bios update seemed to go successfully.

Sorry!  Now I know what "2.10" was being refered to.  Sorry to JHB for
that.  JHB was correct "2.10" is a specification and does not refer to
the Tyan version given to a specific BIOS.


> I might add that even with this updated BIOS, that seems to be more buggy 
> from FreeBSD-current's point of view, that power down still works fine with 
> Windows 2000.

And yes, that is my experiences also with K7 Thunder BIOS version 2.14
(and 2.13 and 2.10).