-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9-Jan-08, at 11:29 AM, Scott Lair wrote:
Brian McKee wrote:On 8-Jan-08, at 1:26 PM, Brian McKee wrote:I have a PC here (mainboard IBM 819966U) running Etch that seems to hang after sitting idle for a long period of time. It didn't have this problem previously when using Mandrake 10.1 although I have changed some of the hardware since then. It _seems like_ the hard drives are the issue - they don't spin back up and any attempt at logging in at the console times out. It looks like the problem goes away if I change the suspend type to S1 instead of S3 in the BIOS, although I thought Linux overrode the BIOS when using ACPI?OK - so much for that idea - this morning as soon as I touched the keyboard it started a long single continuous tone and never stopped. Won't shutdown either. The hunt continues....might try adding acpi=off noapic to the kernel line in grub.I've got an 8311CCU and fiddled with the bios for a few weeks to no avail.The above fixed it.
Just quick follow up note. There was a case fan that wasn't spinning (probably because it never had to) and another case fan that was only partially spinning. I'm not sure if the issue is the BIOS not running the fans properly or the power supply being insufficient to spin all the fans (the fans themselves seem fine) but removing the extra case fans has made the continuous error tone go away, and the temperature inside the case is still fine. I'm calling it 'fixed'
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