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