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><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Robert Reese <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@sixit.com">ale@sixit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); 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>
</div>> ... The motherboard model is:<br>
<div class="im">> Asus P5N-VM WS/TW100-E5<br>
<br>
<br>
</div><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>
<br>
</div>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 href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/575296" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/575296</a><br>
<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">Cheers,<br>
Robert~<br>
<br>
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