Asus P5QL Pro Nightmare

[Alex Katebi]

I have the same mother board and I have no issues like that. One thing you
should change is the setting of the SATA Hard disk. I heard there were some
issues with some of the optional settings in the BIOS. You may have to
upgrade your BIOS too.


On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> Rick Bragg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a brand new Asus P5QL Pro, and I have been trying to get it
> > running with ubuntu-8.10-desktop-amd64 and there are very strange
> > problems.  It seems I can NEVER reboot the from the Ubuntu CD 2 times in
> > a row, but if I wait a few hours after shutting down, then I can reboot
> > with the CD!  No changes at all, just wait a few hours!  Also, I want to
> > use a (software) raid 10 array as my main disk.  So I use cfdisk to
> > create a single partition with the FD type for each of my 4 disks, then
> > I install mdadm, and as soon as I try to create the array with the
> > command "mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=10
> > --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1" it says that
> > "mdadm: another array by this name is already running"!  How could this
> > be already running?!? I booted from the CD!  It seems I can't create a
> > raid array at all. and it can never reboot without waiting for hours
> > unplugged.  This makes no sense at all.
> >
> > Any Clues?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Rick
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> You have some seriously mis-behaving hardware there somewhere.
>
> You can speed up that reboot problem by discharging the power to
> motherboard and devices.  Shut down the computer.  Turn off physical
> power (either from the switch on your power supply itself, or if your
> power supply is one of those that tries to skimp 10c on a switch, unplug
> it) press the power button on PC, you should see the LED flash on for
> half a second before it dies.  At that point, the power still residual
> in the Capacitors should be spent and you should be able to re-power the
> computer and the misbehaving chip, whether it be on Mobo or some other
> device, should reboot.
>
>
> Most boot cd's will rebuild raid arrays.  That's usually considered a
> good thing for boot cd's to do.  Try cat /proc/mdstat to see which
> arrays are active and what devices they consist of.
>
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