Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:09:25 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian <wellsian@caffeine.com> To: Kostas Papadopoulos <kpapad@hyper.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System stops 10min after starting a "make world" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002271237070.38943-100000@boris.netgate.net> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.20000227203318.0070ccec@mail.hyper.gr>
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Thanks for letting us know the result. It's always good to get closure on a thread. Now, pardon for a moment... <preaching> Unless the vendor explicitly says otherwise, ALWAYS reset your BIOS' configuration "to factory" after upgrading/flashing the BIOS. This should be followed by a power-off/power-on cycle of at least several seconds, preferably by disconnection of the power-cord followed by pushing the power-button to discharge stored power. Sure, you might get away without doing these things, or just some, totally dependent on the vendor, board, coder, and old/new versions, but you're asking, no, pleading for trouble. The most common reason people don't like to reset is that they're afraid of losing all those settings they don't understand. This is faulty reasoning because most of the settings will go away anyway, or won't be valid when the new BIOS code responds with some error condition and either uses defaults internally or just gets confused. You may continue to see some of your old settings when viewing settings, but the BIOS may very well just be responding with its own "error-out" response every time. Without intimate knowledge of the board and code it's not possible to predict what's happening. You can guess this means it's unwise to rely on. Before flashing, write everything down or use that cool, new, digital camera you bought, and reset! There are good reasons why the README that came with the BIOS image says to do it. </preaching> All the above, including blanket generalizations, is intended for safe computing and written with the typical "unless you know better" disclaimer. :) Dave On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Kostas Papadopoulos wrote: > Hi all. > > Just following up to my own posting a day ago, supplying the solution. > Hopefully it might be useful for others in the future. > > As said in my original message, I was suspecting some kind of weird Gigabyte > BX2000 BIOS behaviour (as I had already upgraded the BIOS from v1.7 to v1.8 > to v.F2), as outlined in my previous post. So I loaded Award BIOS v1.8, then > booted once with the "CLEAR CMOS" switch (JP14) on the motherboard closed, > which cleared all BIOS user-settings to factory defaults. > > I then proceeded with disabling Power Management features as before, only > this time the setting was actually honored by the motherboard, as the system > has been progressing with a "make world" for the last hour :-) > > Moral of the story: Don't rely on the BIOS configuration settings being > displayed to you after a BIOS upgrade, being the ones actually used by the > motherboard. If in doubt, clear the CMOS holding the BIOS-settings and > re-configure. At least that worked for me and Gigabyte's BX2000 motherboard, > YMMV. > > Thanks to those who responded, > > KP. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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