nickt
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Hi FreeNAS friends.
After 2 years of solid service, I think my ASRock C2750D4I has finally succumbed to the Avaton family LPC bug. I had a few unplanned restarts in one day (kernel panics) and now it won't POST. Power supply spins up, but nothing happens - no output to VGA. The only thing I have to go on is this photo I took from the last kernel panic before it refused to start. I don't know enough to interpret the message - I'm hoping someone maybe able to make sense of it and / or confirm that the symptoms are consistent with the LPC bug.
I've tested everything I can think of: removed / swapped memory, removed all USB / hard drives. Checked power supply. It seems overwhelmingly likely that it is the LPC bug, but would by nice to verify by someone else's experience that the symptoms line up. Very difficult to diagnose this board - no way to get a POST beep (no onboard speaker, no terminals for an external speaker), VGA output doesn't start until a successful POST, BMC is dead.
I've had an unbelievably bad run with this board. I lost the first board to the BMC watchdog fault. Much more recently I killed the BMC by trying to upgrade its firmware (taken out by a pop up blocker in my browser - my bad, but - come on - it shouldn't be so easy to destroy the BMC). Support from ASRock has been atrocious - my mistake was to buy from US NewEgg as an Australian - nobody wants to help, particularly because ASRock has no presence in Australia. It took weeks of email arguing with NewEgg to get a replacement. I won't attempt it this time.
Interestingly, the symptoms of the BMC watchdog fault were subtly different: in that case, pressing the case button wouldn't even start the power supply (ie POST wouldn't even commence). This time, the power supply comes on, but I am guessing POST fails.
Anyway, hoping someone can help.
Thanks,
Nick
After 2 years of solid service, I think my ASRock C2750D4I has finally succumbed to the Avaton family LPC bug. I had a few unplanned restarts in one day (kernel panics) and now it won't POST. Power supply spins up, but nothing happens - no output to VGA. The only thing I have to go on is this photo I took from the last kernel panic before it refused to start. I don't know enough to interpret the message - I'm hoping someone maybe able to make sense of it and / or confirm that the symptoms are consistent with the LPC bug.
I've tested everything I can think of: removed / swapped memory, removed all USB / hard drives. Checked power supply. It seems overwhelmingly likely that it is the LPC bug, but would by nice to verify by someone else's experience that the symptoms line up. Very difficult to diagnose this board - no way to get a POST beep (no onboard speaker, no terminals for an external speaker), VGA output doesn't start until a successful POST, BMC is dead.
I've had an unbelievably bad run with this board. I lost the first board to the BMC watchdog fault. Much more recently I killed the BMC by trying to upgrade its firmware (taken out by a pop up blocker in my browser - my bad, but - come on - it shouldn't be so easy to destroy the BMC). Support from ASRock has been atrocious - my mistake was to buy from US NewEgg as an Australian - nobody wants to help, particularly because ASRock has no presence in Australia. It took weeks of email arguing with NewEgg to get a replacement. I won't attempt it this time.
Interestingly, the symptoms of the BMC watchdog fault were subtly different: in that case, pressing the case button wouldn't even start the power supply (ie POST wouldn't even commence). This time, the power supply comes on, but I am guessing POST fails.
Anyway, hoping someone can help.
Thanks,
Nick