Still SMBALERT# spontaneous shutdown on VAIO Serie F
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Still having the problem of the spontaneous shutdown on a VAIO serie F laptop due to a bug in the thermal sensor of the PII celeron. There is no ACPI, nor APM, nor I2C / SMBus builded in the kernel.
Are you sure that the shutdown is connected to the errata?
The system shutdown is probably triggered by the BIOS SMI handler - SMI can interrupt the linux kernel, and the bios takes over control of the system.
Are there any bios upgrades for laptop?
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Manfred
Hi,
I've already updated my bios to the last revision but Sony give a poor support to those customers. I won't buy a VAIO anymore !
As I've read on the website spokin' about VAIO problems, the problem seems to be connected to that, but yes, why not, it could be the SMI handler too. I only know that the sotware could solve it antd that's one of the several power of Linux other Windows.
Regards,
Florent CHANTRET
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From: "Manfred Spraul" <[email protected]>
To: "Florent CHANTRET" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [INTEL PII BUG] Still SMBALERT# spontaneous shutdown on VAIO Serie F
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Still having the problem of the spontaneous shutdown on a VAIO serie F laptop due to a bug in the thermal sensor of the PII celeron. There is no ACPI, nor APM, nor I2C / SMBus builded in the kernel.
Are you sure that the shutdown is connected to the errata?
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The system shutdown is probably triggered by the BIOS SMI handler - SMI can interrupt the linux kernel, and the bios takes over control of the system.
Are there any bios upgrades for laptop?
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Manfred
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Quoted 11 lines · Florent CHANTRET
Hi,
I've already updated my bios to the last revision but Sony give a poor support to those customers. I won't buy a VAIO anymore !
As I've read on the website spokin' about VAIO problems, the problem seems to be connected to that, but yes, why not, it could be the SMI handler too. I only know that the sotware could solve it antd that's one of the several power of Linux other Windows.
Which kernel do you use, and could you try to enable ACPI?
If it doesn't help, try the latest acpi patch from http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi/
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Manfred