[ale] nforce smbus: error probing SMB1 and SMB2

[jrtroberts]

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. 

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:
P5N-VM WS/TW100-E5 BIOS 0505
Update NVMM to 4.084.10 to improve dram performance
which doesn't address the 8gigs of ram issue I was having.  Not to 
mention I don't know where to download it.

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.

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.

Joshua

Greg Clifton wrote:
> Hello Joshua,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> GC
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Robert Reese <ale at sixit.com 
> <mailto:ale at sixit.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Joshua,
>
>     Monday, June 14, 2010, 3:34:38 AM, you wrote:
>
>     > I have been working on a machine for a while now, trying to get it
>     > up and running with Ubuntu x86_64  10.04.
>     > ...  The motherboard model is:
>     > Asus P5N-VM WS/TW100-E5
>
>
>     > After Bios Post there is a pause then an
>     > error message:
>
>     > nforce_smbus 0000:00:03.2: error probing SMB1 and then something
>     > equivalent but
>     > nforce_smbus 0000:00:03.2: error probing SMB2  Not sure if the hex
>     > numbers are different, I can check later.
>     > (it might say nforce2, but I am not 100% on that)
>
>
>     I'm not sure this will help you or not...
>
>     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...)
>
>     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?
>
>     Anyway,  perhaps this link will help:
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/575296
>
>     Cheers,
>     Robert~
>
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