Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:22:44 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Brian J. Conway" <bconway@clue4all.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <007b01c76538$03b2ec60$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <20070310105759.6980f90e.bconway@clue4all.net>
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I have found with some of the intel MBs that the latest BIOS update actually causes trouble. Don't be afraid to try back-flashing to an older BIOS update. Intel has all the BIOS versions up on their site for each board. Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian J. Conway" <bconway@clue4all.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 7:57 AM Subject: Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE > > I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I > > disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not > > related with NICs, but exclusively with the motherboard. > > Interesting. I hadn't thought of that, but I am using ACPI now where I > was not on 4.x. I'll give that a try next time it happens. I would have > hoped the motherboard would be up to par (Intel D845GVSR with the latest > BIOS - http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/D845GVSR/index.htm), but > maybe not. Thanks. > > (Sorry for the bad threading, I'm off list and copying off the web > archive.) > > Brian J. Conway > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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