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Title: Old board (Asus P5A-B) problem
Post by: jamesli on January 12, 2006, 06:01:22 PM

I try to set up a test server using SME7b9 on a old machine with a ASUS P5A-B on it. This machine works fine in windows xp before but I run into some problem when I install SME. The setup runs fine but when I try to copy files into an ibay, it cause a kernel panic. Then I notice some strange message from the log as below:

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Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.0
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A]: no GSI
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: ALI15X3: chipset revision 193
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel:     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel:     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: Probing IDE interface ide0...
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun last message repeated 35 times
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: hda: Maxtor 6L120P0, ATA DISK drive
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun last message repeated 75 times
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: Losing too many ticks!
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: TSC cannot be used as a timesource.  
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: Possible reasons for this are:
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel:   You're running with Speedstep,
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel:   You don't have DMA enabled for your hard disk (see hdparm),
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel:   Incorrect TSC synchronization on an SMP system (see dmesg).
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: Falling back to a sane timesource now.
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: Using cfq io scheduler
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jan 10 21:20:51 baiyun kernel: Probing IDE interface ide1...



It is on the latest BIOS of the board. When I try to reverse to an earlier BIOS, since that BIOS date is before the ACPI cutoff date. SME set it up as APM instead of ACPI. Strangely the messages above (losing ticks) are gone along with the kernel panic. But it cost me the USB ports which I will need.
Had anyone try this board before? please help me out here, thanks

Title: Old board (Asus P5A-B) problem
Post by: Lowell Fuher on January 15, 2006, 10:50:12 PM

Obviously a hardware problem, and I think I see it.  Tell me your setup.  Are you running an IDE card to run that monster 120gig hard drive?

I run that same mobo on a test server.

 8-)

Title: Old board (Asus P5A-B) problem
Post by: jamesli on January 16, 2006, 01:07:19 AM

I am running the 120GB drive on the primary IDE channel as the only drive in the system. I had try to switch to a 4GB drive and still get the same error. And more strange thing is I had two of this board and all had the same error. What bios version are you using on this board?

Title: Old board (Asus P5A-B) problem
Post by: jamesli on January 16, 2006, 04:08:45 AM

Finally found my problem, it is the CPU that is bad. Thanks for pointing out it is a hardware issue.

Title: Old board (Asus P5A-B) problem
Post by: Lowell Fuher on January 16, 2006, 06:57:17 AM

Hard drive on primary, CD on secondary?

With this board - this is a must.