Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:14:42 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ACPI on Tyan Motherboard Message-ID: <20030820021442.GA90872@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3F42D4FE.30401@math.missouri.edu> References: <3F428FE7.5000104@math.missouri.edu> <XFMail.20030819181319.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20030820014226.GC90099@dragon.nuxi.com> <3F42D4FE.30401@math.missouri.edu>
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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).
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