Bug 789964 - Problems in BIOS POST
Summary: Problems in BIOS POST
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-13 11:14 UTC by la_antorcha_guia
Modified: 2012-09-20 06:17 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-02-13 18:30:44 UTC
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Description la_antorcha_guia 2012-02-13 11:14:56 UTC
Description of problem:
BIOS post problem on boot.

How reproducible:
Poweroff while "ondemand" active.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install cpupower
2.Do not edit sysconfig files
3. Poweroff with "ondemand" active.
4. Boot
5.Post problem on this hardware

6. edit sysconfig to poweroff pc with "performance" active.
7. problem solved
8. ¿?
  
Actual results:
Bad BIOS post

Expected results:
Good BIOS post

Additional info:
Strange bug in this hardware:
BIOS Information
        Vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
        Version: F12
        Release Date: 03/07/2008
        Address: 0xE0000
        Runtime Size: 128 kB
        ROM Size: 512 kB
        Characteristics:
                PCI is supported
                PNP is supported
                APM is supported
                BIOS is upgradeable
                BIOS shadowing is allowed
                Boot from CD is supported
                Selectable boot is supported
                BIOS ROM is socketed
                EDD is supported
                5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
                8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
                Serial services are supported (int 14h)
                Printer services are supported (int 17h)
                CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
                ACPI is supported
                USB legacy is supported
                LS-120 boot is supported
                ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported
                BIOS boot specification is supported
                                                                                                                                                                                    
Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes                                                                                                                                                 
System Information                                                                                                                                                                  
        Manufacturer:                                                                                                                                                               
        Product Name:                                                                                                                                                               
        Version:                                                                                                                                                                    
        Serial Number:                                                                                                                                                              
        UUID: Not Present                                                                                                                                                           
        Wake-up Type: Power Switch                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                    
Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes                                                                                                                                                  
Base Board Information                                                                                                                                                              
        Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.                                                                                                                                 
        Product Name: M55S-S3                                                                                                                                                       
        Version:                                                                                                                                                                    
        Serial Number:

Comment 1 la_antorcha_guia 2012-02-13 11:16:17 UTC
Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 35 bytes
Processor Information
        Socket Designation: Socket M2
        Type: Central Processor
        Family: Athlon
        Manufacturer: AMD
        ID: B2 0F 04 00 FF FB 8B 17
        Signature: Family 15, Model 75, Stepping 2
        Flags:
                FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
                VME (Virtual mode extension)
                DE (Debugging extension)
                PSE (Page size extension)
                TSC (Time stamp counter)
                MSR (Model specific registers)
                PAE (Physical address extension)
                MCE (Machine check exception)
                CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
                APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
                SEP (Fast system call)
                MTRR (Memory type range registers)
                PGE (Page global enable)
                MCA (Machine check architecture)
                CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
                PAT (Page attribute table)
                PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
                CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)
                MMX (MMX technology supported)
                FXSR (FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions supported)
                SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
                SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)
                HTT (Multi-threading)
        Version: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
        Voltage: 1.4 V
        External Clock: 200 MHz
        Max Speed: 3200 MHz
        Current Speed: 2200 MHz
        Status: Populated, Enabled
        Upgrade: ZIF Socket
        L1 Cache Handle: 0x000B
        L2 Cache Handle: 0x000D
        L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided
        Serial Number:  
        Asset Tag:  
        Part Number:

Comment 2 Petr Šabata 2012-02-13 12:24:21 UTC
I doubt this has anything to do with the cpupower tool.  Anyhow, it's a part of kernel-tools now (f16+), re-assigning.


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