Re: How can Linux demage a motherboard?

Hi Kirk,

I have tried, this is what boggles my mind. Where the hell is this value?

I have reset the bios and also patched it...I will try again ...

Thanks again,

Tom



"Kirk C Aune" <kaune@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Noozer wrote:
"Tom Szabo" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

What you are saying is correct, almost, just one little but could be
significant issue.

The first mage was installed on this, Opteron based machine, the second
was
installed on Dueal Xeon based machine ans brought over to the
Opteron...

I also appreciate your suggestion, but I already tryed everything on
this
line, I was twice in the bios looking at the temperature when the
system
suddenly wund up and shut down a few seconds later.

All temperatures were stable and in the middle between high and low.
Unfortunately I haven't found a way to shut down or disable the
temperatur
monitoring....

One more item, from way out in left field, is UPS monitoring...

I'm not aware of any mainboards that handle UPS monitoring, so it's not
likely the issue.

I have had systems with similar symptoms after a COM port was disabled
in
the BIOS settings, or a cable moved to allow a serial connection to
something else. This was all at OS level though, so wouldn't happen
until
the OS was booted.


Check your Motherboard book to locate the CMOS jumper reset and reset.
If the temperature/fan/fail sensors were set to something incompatible
with standard operation, the power can be arrested. The reset on the
motherboard will clear back to default conditions on the bios and give
you a shot at use again.



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