Re: ACPI broke going from 8 to 9

From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:16:28 -0800
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Dan Allen <danallen46_at_airwired.net> wrote:
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> On 31 Dec 2011, at 11:40 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
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>> Is your Optiplex running the latest BIOS firmware?
>
> My Dell OptiPlex GX270 was running BIOS A06, but I found that there was an A07.  So I installed A07 hoping that would do the trick, but it still prints:
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>  pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
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> and then hangs.

Ok. The GX270 is pretty old, so this is probably a stretch but is
there an ACPI toggle / 'conformance' option in the BIOS? My guess is
that the machine is 1.0/1.1 spec, not 2.0 spec.
-Garrett
Received on Sat Dec 31 2011 - 18:16:29 UTC

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