On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 14:23 +0000, johnnys wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I just came back to bring bad news: My machine just crashed again > (running with the newly flashed BIOS A16). > > I assume you got the copy process right (probably also using the 'dd' > command). Otherwise you wouldn't have command.com kernel.sys and the > bios update file "0780-A15.exe' on it). Next step would be to boot into > this newly created FreeDOS environment, i.e.: > > - shutdown the PC > - insert the thumb drive > - be sure that your system has "boot to USB" enabled > otherwise hit F12 (or so) to "select device to boot from" > - set the current date (FreeDOS will prompt you) > - start the BIOS update by typing "0780-A15.exe" > - follow the steps on screen... > - reboot > > cheers, > > John > Thanks John, been so long since I ran a DOS program I forgot how to execute a file :( had to Google it. Would have been ok if I'd made the first character an 'O' instead of putting a '0' in. Finally got it right though. Since I already had the A15 update I installed that one. That's screwed up that you already had a lockup, check comment #4 where it was suggested that I update the BIOS. Since both of us have already done that you may want to go to the bug report and leave a comment that 'well that didn't work, what next' but I guess be nicer. I'm also working on this bug report - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75394 you may want to get involved there also. I'm going to make a note of when I upgraded the BIOS and follow up with comments on both bugs when (note I didn't say if) it locks up/crashes again. I'd probably run 'sudo lshw' and attach the output to you comment to show that you have in fact updated the BIOS that's what I'm going to do and since I'm on A15 and you're on A16 and just had a lockup that should tell them something.
This is getting absurd, something needs to be done. If you notice the first comment in the link above you'll see that person is running 'Arch Linux' and a completely different type of hardware so this bug is affecting a lot of systems. I've already upgraded to a 3.14* kernel from a Ubuntu PPA which did not help so I went back to the 3.13* version. Hopefully someone, someday will get this fixed. Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11°N 97.89°W (Elev. 1092 ft) 08:40:03 up 6 min, 2 users, load average: 1.14, 1.32, 0.71 Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, kernel 3.13.0-44-generic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1402331 Title: System will periodically lockup with [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... render ring idle To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1402331/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
