Re: Patch needed for ASUS EEEPC 701 2.6.27 (perhaps a regession)

Alan Jenkins
2008-10-14T09:12:57Z

Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Alan Jenkins wrote:
>> It could be a coincidence. But it's suspicious enough to advise
>> caution. We know what the bug is, and we have a very nice workaround
>> queued up now. There's no reason to test any more of these specific
>> systems to destruction :).
>> I did try re-installing off the vendor DVD and it was still broken.
>> I fear I bought it from the wrong place to get sympathetic
>> _frontline_ support / warrantee. I'm not interested in RMA back to
>> Asus - too much work and downtime for a cheap system, when I have an
>> easy workaround. I haven't noticed any problems with "noapic".
>>
>>
>> The symptoms strongly suggest overflow in an event buffer or counter
>> maintained by the Embedded Controller. So the EC firmware may have a
>> bug, of the sort that results in "unspecified behaviour". A bug in a
>> special purpose (read: not subject to wide testing) subsystem which
>> has direct connections to things like frequency and voltage control.
>>
>> Hopefully I'm wrong, and I don't really know what I'm talking about
>> here.
>>
>> Regards
>> Alan
>>
> Did you try to disconnect all power resources (e.g. AC adapter and all
> batteries and wait for some time)?

Yes, I tried leaving it with AC + battery unplugged overnight.

> May be there are some default settings in the BIOS?
> This looks small enough to be a HW failure...

I also upgraded the BIOS to the latest version. And tried the BIOS
setup option to restore defaults. Maybe there is some more state, but
it's not like a desktop where I can easily remove the CMOS battery.

Thanks
Alan