Intel S3210SHLC motherboard and FreeBSD 7.0

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:58:24PM -0700, Carl wrote:
> I've had a couple of incidents where pressing the reset button actually  
> powers down the server for 5 seconds or so before automatically powering  
> back up. Not a big deal, but doesn't instill confidence in this 
> motherboard.

This is common on Intel CPU/chipset boards.  It has to do with one
of a couple different things:

1) BIOS: CPU virtualisation support
2) BIOS: Thermal monitoring 
3) BIOS: Other BIOS options which I can't remember

I've seen this happen on Intel boards, as well as nVidia Socket 775
boards, and Asus boards.  It's become "normal" in this day and age;
otherwise, see if there's a BIOS upgrade (on Asus boards this usually
fixes it; if you change any of those BIOS options, the hard power-off
will happen once, but from that point on reset will behave like you
expect).

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