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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:36:19 +0000
From:      Peter Gradwell <peter@gradwell.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP on Intel SCB2
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020124123544.04e2c6d0@indigo.gradwell.net>
In-Reply-To: <3C4DEC77.F605800D@mindspring.com>
References:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020122161414.04ee9638@indigo.gradwell.net>

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At 14:49 22/01/2002 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
>Peter Gradwell wrote:
> > I've got a number of the new SCB2 motherboards from intel and I want
> > to run them with dual PIII CPUs. It all seems to be working fine, except
> > that some times on boot the machines hang*.
>[ ... ]
> > This seems to only happen if I do "shutdown -r now", i.e. a warm reboot. It
> > boots fine if I power the machine off, count to 10 and power it on.
>[ ... ]
> > Does anyone have a clue how I can fix it?
>
>In practice, and significant difference between the state of
>the hardware as a result of a cold boot and the state of the
>hardware as a result of a warm boot is a BIOS bug.

That's interesting to hear. Otherwise, the machines work fine. Perhaps I
need to find out if there is a bios upgrade, and if so, flash them.

thanks

peter

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