From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 20 19:46:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A67D16A41F for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:46:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from www.cryptography.com (li-22.members.linode.com [64.5.53.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A7C43D69 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:46:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from [10.0.0.53] (adsl-67-119-74-222.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [67.119.74.222]) by www.cryptography.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0KJk7VK027721 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:46:08 -0800 Message-ID: <43D13E17.2000801@root.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:46:31 -0800 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark.McGregor@americom-gs.com References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI blacklist of Asus P2B-F X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:46:16 -0000 Mark.McGregor@americom-gs.com wrote: > I came across your post recently when I was researching the P2B-F ASUS > motherboards. If you have experience on these boards, I have a question > for you. If not, please forgive me for sending you this email. Here is my > problem; I was using my PC the other day when all the sudden, my screen > went blank, but my hard drive was still running. After removing the panels > on my PC tower, I pulled my graphics card from the AGP slot and noticed > that there was a few burnt capacitors. So I went and purchased another AGP > graphic board and tried it again. Still no video. Then I returned the AGP > graphics card for another type which fits into one of my PCI slots, still > no resolve. I found a used ASUS motherboard on ebay for 10 dollars and I > might purchase it. What do you think might have happened to my > motherboard? BTW, I took my monitor to a friends house and hooked it up to > his computer and it worked fine. Please let me know if you have any > suggestions. Thanks. I don't see the magic word "FreeBSD" in this email. If this is something you think is OS-related, please provide that info. Otherwise, there's no way to know what happened to your PC. -- Nate