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I haven't tried the interim bios updated, because I am unable to find
any other Bios downloads. I contacted Asus today about the issue. It
took the tech around 20 minutes to find the Mobo, because it originally
shipped as part of a tower or barebones system and was not sold
separately by Asus. It seems that Asus made a deal with Newegg or
something similar. Whatever happened, Newegg was selling this Mobo
with a free processor for a while. <br>
<br>
After the tech found the box that the Mobo originally shipped in, he
did not give me the directions on how to find the machine on the Asus
site for me to try a different Bios. The only other bios update I have
seen is the:<br>
P5N-VM WS/TW100-E5 BIOS 0505<br>
Update NVMM to 4.084.10 to improve dram performance<br>
which doesn't address the 8gigs of ram issue I was having. Not to
mention I don't know where to download it.<br>
<br>
I am waiting to here from Asus support's one linux tech to see what he
suggests. I am hoping that if it is under warranty they might let me
swap it for something else, but I doubt they will. There seems to be 7
other people waiting in line to talk to him today, so I will get an
e-mail in the next few days and learn how to proceed.<br>
<br>
So back to waiting. Worse case scenario is just to get another
Non-Asus motherboard to put into the machine and save this one for
later.<br>
<br>
Joshua<br>
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Greg Clifton wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTin9HF487N91Gn458kbQzs-jgqkZHo9xEDr9kmyA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hello Joshua,<br>
<br>
I second the motion of contacting ASUS, I have found them to be pretty
responsive to any technical queries. Perhaps they have a beta or custom
BIOS that would solve the problem.<br>
<br>
I have a relatively new system at home with a single core Athlon 64 and
a Nvidia graphics card running the latest Ubuntu 64bit w/ 4GB of RAM
that also won't hibernate; system acts like it is going to sleep and
then just reboots. I forget the exact make/model, MSI or something
cheaper ($50 for mobo & CPU @ Frys a year or so ago) so I think the
ACPI/AIPC issues are not restricted to just ASUS mobos.<br>
<br>
GC <br>
<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Robert
Reese <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ale@sixit.com">ale@sixit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello
Joshua,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
Monday, June 14, 2010, 3:34:38 AM, you wrote:<br>
<br>
> I have been working on a machine for a while now, trying to get it<br>
> up and running with Ubuntu x86_64 10.04.<br>
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> ... The motherboard model is:<br>
<div class="im">> Asus P5N-VM WS/TW100-E5<br>
<br>
<br>
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<div class="im">> After Bios Post there is a pause then an<br>
> error message:<br>
<br>
> nforce_smbus 0000:00:03.2: error probing SMB1 and then something<br>
> equivalent but<br>
> nforce_smbus 0000:00:03.2: error probing SMB2 Not sure if the hex<br>
> numbers are different, I can check later.<br>
> (it might say nforce2, but I am not 100% on that)<br>
<br>
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I'm not sure this will help you or not...<br>
<br>
I have the same error messages on my ASUS 1201N Eee PC running Ubuntu
10.04 x64. In my research, as limited as the information is on this, I
found this to be specific to ASUS + NVidia NForce2. Most people that
have this issue write that the error delays booting an additional few
seconds; no one has identified the same issues as you that I saw. Some
others report that the SMB issue is with ACPI and a few other
NForce2-controlled functions, including some boot-up USB issues. Yet
none that I saw had any issues with video. (For me, my 1201N won't
hibernate...)<br>
<br>
Of course, very few of them are running dual video cards and more than
8GB RAM, so your problem could certainly be a result of the error.
OTOH, going from BIOS 4.08 to 6.01 is a huge leap. Have you contacted
ASUS about this problem, or tried interim BIOS updates?<br>
<br>
Anyway, perhaps this link will help:<br>
<div class="im"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/575296"
target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/575296</a><br>
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<div class="h5">Cheers,<br>
Robert~<br>
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