PnP Bios fatal error on startup

[James Takac]

Hi 

On Tuesday 22 July 2008 18:28:55 Michael Faber wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a new notebook: Samsung Q45-Aura T5550 Tisla with Windows Vista
> Now I tried Ubuntu (live) on it and got some strange messages during
> startup
>
> >>PnP Bios  fault .. attempting recovery
> >>PnP Bios: Warning! Your PnP Bios caused a fatal error attempting to
> >> continue PnP Bios: You may need to reboot with pnpbios=off
> >>PnP Bios: Check with your vendor for bios update
> >>PnP get_dev_node: unexpected status 0x37
>
> Ubuntu still starts. But before I intall it I would like to know what's
> wrong and what I have to do to make things right. Thanks
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I suspect it's just a setting in your bios. You can likely get rid of the 
warning by loading the failsafe defaults in your bios and rebooting. Later 
you can attempt to alter settings tho I'd suggest one at a time to see which 
is the culprit

James