on 19/01/2009 14:27 Pegasus Mc Cleaft said the following: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andriy Gapon" <a...@icyb.net.ua> [snip] >> So, if we globally disable SMI, then the watchdog in ICH9 does indeed >> cause a reboot. Evidently this happens after the timer expires twice >> in row. [snip] > Mentioned in the datasheet for the ICH9, the speaker pin is used as a > configuration pin while reset it asserted. If a logic 1 is present on > this pin when reset is deasserted, the ICH9 chip locks out the ability > for software to enable the watchdog. With the ichwd driver for BSD, this > condition is announced with a message like "Watchdog present, but > disabled in BIOS". (Well.. something close to that)
"ICH WDT present but disabled in BIOS or hardware" I believe your issue is quite a different one, it is older and known and explicitly reported by the driver. In this case the watchdog does work and does seem to generate SMI. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"