[Bug 76989] Re: MP-BIOS bug on Asus Pundit1 AH2

[Fred Mora]

On Tuesday 23 December 2008 16:35, Gaetan Nadon - memsize at videotron.ca 
wrote:
> Thanks for responding. I am trying to assess if this is a valid bug in
> Ubuntu, I am not a developer. I've done a quick search for your mobo,
> and I got mixed results. Some claim it works and pass validation tests,
> others claim they were not able to install any Linux distro. I have seen
> comments like:
>
>    "You need to disable ADMA by putting sata_nv.adma=0 as a boot
> parameter in order to install Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit. The 32-bit version
> installs without this parameter."
>
>    "I struggled with random lockups under Edgy and then Feisty until
> "noapic" cured it for me. I had the 8254 timer message with Feisty but
> don't recall it with Edgy."
>
> Many have reported acpi must be off and some BIOS versions did not work.
> Some claim Live CD does not work but alternate install does. This user
> has the same problem installing Fedora 8 on Asus M2N-MX:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-to-install-fe
>dora-8-on-asus-m2n-mx-se-643214/ This Ubuntu threads inidicate the
> freezes are due to the nvidia driver.
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=678377&highlight=MP-BIOS+bug%3A
>+8254+timer
>
> I personally used Asus mobos for many years with just one problem where
> I had to upgrade the BIOS as I got intermittent freezing. However I
> always picked Intel chipset for Intel CPUs and now I have AMD690G for
> AMD CPU on a M2A-VM and running 64 bit Ubuntu.
>
> There seems to be more than one problem and more than one solution. I
> found some excellent posts on the Ubuntu forum, some very recent. I am
> confident you can get the mobo working and perhaps rescue some hardware.
> If I had the hardware I would try it for you.
>
> If you feel it's not worthy for you to pursue the matter, I'll mark the
> defect as invalid, otherwise I can mark it as confirmed and it will
> reach a developer.
>
> Thanks
>
> BugSquad

Bonjour Gaetan,

Not sure if you speak French (I am French) so I'm going to write in 
English.

I still have the machine with the suspicious mobo. I'll try one of the 
methods described here and we'll see if I still have problems. That's what 
Christmas vacations are for, aren't they?

Thank you,

  --Fred

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MP-BIOS bug on Asus Pundit1 AH2 (Kernel panic)
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