Intel watchdog timer

[Jack Vogel]

On 2/8/06, Christopher Arnold <chris at arnold.se> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> does anyone have any info on how to disable the watchdog timer on an intel
> serverboard model SE7501WV2?
>
> I have found the userland application to disable the watchdog in the ICH
> but that dosnt help much when i cant even get 6.0 installed before the
> timer goes off...
>
> Wouldnt it be a good idea if we could disable the timer when booting in
> failsafe mode from the installation CD?

This should be a BIOS option, I dont have one of these to be sure, but
look into the System Management/BMC stuff in the BIOS. That's just
a guess.

Jack