Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

I have found with some of the intel MBs that the latest BIOS update
actually causes trouble.  Don't be afraid to try back-flashing to an older
BIOS update.  Intel has all the BIOS versions up on their site for each
board.

Ted

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian J. Conway" <bconway at clue4all.net>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE


> > I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I
> > disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not
> > related with NICs, but exclusively with the motherboard.
>
> Interesting.  I hadn't thought of that, but I am using ACPI now where I
> was not on 4.x.  I'll give that a try next time it happens.  I would have
> hoped the motherboard would be up to par (Intel D845GVSR with the latest
> BIOS - http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/D845GVSR/index.htm), but
> maybe not.  Thanks.
>
> (Sorry for the bad threading, I'm off list and copying off the web
> archive.)
>
> Brian J. Conway
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