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n1x4

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From: Chernobyl

Registered: 2012-02-17

Posts: 149

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HDD frag / 3.6.4 update MP-BIOS bug

I've read quite a few posts about this, even dating all the way back to '08 but I just can't get a clear answer. I was away fo a couple of weeks and came back to run an update on one of my laptops (120+/- updates).  Ran the same updates on a few other PCs and didn't have a single issue. When I boot up I get the error message

MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected

ata1:ACPI set timing mode failed

with a bunch of other I/O error msgs. If I add noapic to the grub line the MP_BIOS msg disappears but the ata1 set timing mode failure still appears with other I/O errors.

I really don't think it's that BS EXT4 bug but just looking for an idea maybe. It's an old Sony Vaio PCG-GRT390ZP.

I can SOMETIMES boot into the arch iso appending "pci=nommconf idle=poll and noapic" to the grub kernel boot line. I have to use the idle=poll and pci=nommconf on EVERY distro unless I want to keep mashing my keyboard to get the thing to work properly..lol

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