Tyan GT24 - Thunder K8SRE mainboard

[Ken Gunderson]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:09:15 +1100
Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:

> Lawrence Farr wrote:
> >>hi there - i have said box, was running 6. just fine with the first 
> >>release of the BIOS . After updating to BIOS to the latest 
> >>one (had some 
> >>interesting upgrades), i started getting some errors about 
> >>ACPI PCI-PCI 
> >>memory (end < start)...are those the errors you were getting? still 
> >>trying to solve it :( I may start a separate thread if I can't figure 
> >>this one out soon.
> > 
> > 
> > Yep, that's the ones. Never tried downgrading the BIOS, just checked
> > it was the latest.
> > 
> > 
> 
> ok - i can confirm installing v.1 of the BIOS fixes the issue. Haven't
> tried with the one in between the latest and v1.0.
> 
> The BIOS files are from
> http://tyan.com/support/html/b_s2891.html
> 
> * dmesg -a after booting verbose for working BIOS :
> http://www.meijome.net/files/freebsd/amd64/OK_bios_2891v100.txt
> 
> * dmesg -a after booting verbose new,not working BIOS :
> http://www.meijome.net/files/freebsd/amd64/NOT_OK_bios_2891_201.txt
> 
> Is it worth submitting a PR for this? what information do you / anyone
> suggest is included in it? I'd love to be able to test more, but I can't
> keep this box offline any longer.

Would you mind elaborating on your current status with this box and
what BIOS version you're referencing?

Thanks.

-- 
Best regards,

Ken Gunderson

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