From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Jan 24 4:37:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from blue.gradwell.net (blue.gradwell.net [195.149.39.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A90DD37B400 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 04:37:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11944 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2002 12:37:09 -0000 Received: from stonkin.dcs.aber.ac.uk (HELO vaio.gradwell.com) (193.60.15.4) by pop3.gradwell.net with SMTP; 24 Jan 2002 12:37:09 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020124123544.04e2c6d0@indigo.gradwell.net> X-Sender: postmaster%pop3.peterg.org.uk@indigo.gradwell.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:36:19 +0000 To: Terry Lambert From: Peter Gradwell Subject: Re: SMP on Intel SCB2 Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3C4DEC77.F605800D@mindspring.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020122161414.04ee9638@indigo.gradwell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- peter gradwell. gradwell dot com Ltd. http://www.gradwell.com/ engineering & hosting services for email, usenet, sms and web. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message