On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 05:01:43PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:40:10AM -0400, Don Bowman wrote: > > The problem is with the periodic SMM interrupt and the bios. > > > > The attached program (ich-periodic-smm-disable.c) will fix the problem. > > For more information on what it does, see the Intel ICH3 datasheet. > > > > compile as 'gcc ich-periodic-smm-disable.c; ./a.out' and you will be > > good. > > Run this on each boot. > > > > I think you only need to clear PERIODIC_EN. > > Ok, I'll try it right away, thanks a lot!
This clearly solves it. The machines are now up for longer than a week for the first time since I booted FreeBSD 5.x on them. Thanks again! Marc
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