Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:33:18 +0200 From: Kostas Papadopoulos <kpapad@hyper.gr> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System stops 10min after starting a "make world" Message-ID: <2.2.32.20000227203318.0070ccec@mail.hyper.gr>
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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. [Original message quote] >Symptom: > >The system stops (apparently due to going to suspension mode) >exactly 10 minutes (timed several times with a stop-watch) after I >start a "make world". Otherwise, the system will happily run for hours, >being idle or it can e.g. re-compile the FBSD 3.4 / 3.2 kernel without >a hitch. > >Hardware: > >Motherboard: Gigabyte BX2000 (this one is supposed to be on the top >of the list in the various Web-sites and forums). Have tried several >versions v1.7, v1.8 (15-Dep-99) and v.F2 (21-Dec-99) of its Award BIOS. >Have tried disabling Power Management from the BIOS and also tried > various combinations (PM with APM enabled/disabled etc), without any >success. [...] >It could be a bug of the motherboard not honoring the BIOS settings >about disabling APM and Power Management in general, but why >does it seem to only happen with "make world" ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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