Intel server board, fans running at full speed.

[Oli Drew]

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From: Oli Drew <olidrew at gmail.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2007 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: Intel server board, fans running at full speed.
To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <wearabnet at yahoo.ca>


bump,
         I found a couple of things but I'm not sure how they relate
to my problem:

         1) From a reseller web site:

         Super I/O Controller            National Semiconductor PC87372,
including fan speed control/monitor pins



          2)  From the intel tech spec
(http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/se7230nh1_tps_14.pdf)
:

 LPC (Low Pin Count) bus segment with one embedded device
- Super I/O controller chips providing all PC-compatible I/O (floppy,
serial, keyboard,
mouse, two serial com port ) and integrated hardware monitoring
- LC Super I/O = SMsC* LP47M182NR
- LX Super I/O = National Semiconductor* PC8374LOIBU


           From what I understand this hardware should be accessible
through "mbmon -d", right ?
           The device file should be /dev/smb0 ? Am I close or what?

        I'm not able to check with another OS right now, but the guy
who installed the server originally told me he saw some version of
windows on it and the fan were working ok, for whatever it's worth ;-)

       Oli.






On Nov 8, 2007 10:38 AM, Oli Drew <olidrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, sorry for the delay.
>
> It's close but the images are still limited to 1.44 Mo.
>
> Can I use mkisofs to create a larger image, will dos boot on it ?
> I'm not even sure if acpi thermal zone is supported, how can I know ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Oli
>
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 1, 2007 6:36 PM, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <wearabnet at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > > From: Olivier Drouin <olivier.drouin at enodegroup.com>
> > > To: freebsd-acpi at FreeBSD.org
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2007 9:03:53 PM
> > > Subject: Intel server board, fans running at full speed.
> > >
> > > Hello gurus!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >                 I'm using an Intel board SE7230NH1-E. The fans
> > > are
> > >
> >  always
> > > running at full speed.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >                 I read: HYPERLINK
> > > "http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html"h
> > > ttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >                 I wanted to update the bios but what Intel
> > > gives
> > >
> >  (IFLASH.exe
> > > NH1340P.BIO & NH1340P.ITK) is > 1.44 Meg so it doesn't fit on a
> > > DOS
> > >
> >  boot
> > > disk. How can I update the BIOS? Do you feel it can fix my problem ?
> > >
> > <snip>
> >
> > How about http://www.linux-sxs.org/hardware/flash_boot_cd.html ?
> >
> > > You can reply to olidrew at gmail.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Olivier.
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Regards,
> > -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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> > http://www.WeArab.Net/
> >
> >
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