Nvidia MX 4000 & Nvidia drivers
Lonni J Friedman
netllama at gmail.com
Sat May 13 18:32:50 UTC 2006
On 5/13/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 08:48:59PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 5/12/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> > >On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 08:02:25PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > >> On 5/12/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > What kind of motherboard are you using?
>
> ASUS A7V8X-X
>
> > Have you verified that you're using the latest BIOS?
>
> I doubt I am. The latest non-beta is 1013, 2004/09/09. The beta is
> 1014.002, 2005/06/28. From dmidecode:
>
> BIOS Information
> Vendor: Award Software, Inc.
> Version: ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1007
> Release Date: 11/13/2003
>
> I am reluctant to upgrade the BIOS because if the process were to
> fail, I would be out a motherboard, and the nearest computer store is
> an hour's drive away -- and may not carry anything I would find useful.
I'd say your best bet is to update the BIOS. I don't understand how a
CPU could fail due to updating the BIOS.
You could try booting with the noapic and/or acpi=off kernel
parameters and see if that helps.
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