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On Fri, May 3, 2019, at 7:29 PM, Spackman, Chris wrote: |
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> All, |
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> I set up a new AMD computer (moved disk from previous Intel |
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> computer). After some struggles with bios settings, I got it to boot |
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> properly and updated for the new hardware. All seemed fine, but then it |
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> started "crashing" when left alone. From Googling, it seems that it has |
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> something to do with the bios powering down drives that aren't in use, |
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> but then not being able to power them back up. |
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> When it "crashes" (goes into a coma?), I have to use the power button to |
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> turn it off and then back on. As it starts up, the root partition is |
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> clean, but home has to be recovered - which seems to indicate that it is |
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> indeed an issue with the mobo/bios turning off the root drive. |
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> I found a Linux site that suggested this line in dmesg as a symptom: |
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> > [Firmware Bug]: ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x0 not supported by HW (0x0) |
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> The solution was to turn of C-states in the bios. I forget the exact |
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> wording right now, but I could not find it in my bios. I tried to turn off |
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> everything that seemed related to power saving, but several did not have |
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> an "off" option. So, I am still getting the error. |
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> For now, I set up a cron job to move a file from /root to /tmp every 15 |
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> minutes. This seems to work, but it is obviously not a long term |
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> solution. |
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> I checked for a bios update, but there was not one available. |
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> Has anyone else experienced this? Is there maybe a /sys/ or /proc/ file |
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> I can tweak to avoid bios powering things off? |
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> Thanks. |
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Hi, |
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I'm not in any way familiar with these processors (only recently I've been thinking about upgrading to Ryzen, so I've made some research online. |
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Have you seen this: https://github.com/qrwteyrutiyoup/ryzen-stabilizator ? |
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Is it a first gen processor, or a 2XXX one? |
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Thanks, |
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Emmanuel |