donk
May 4th, 2009, 06:58 AM
Yesterday afternoon I went over to my parents for a few hours as I had been given permission to install ubuntu on my Mum's computer - an ASUS A7TC.
When I installed 9.04 i386 I got a bios error - MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC. I ignored the error and then proceeded to install ubuntu, however it took a long time to boot from the live cd but I proceeded anyway. Most things were recognised so we decided to dual boot and I went about the installation. This proceeded well (I went and had lunch!) came back and the pc was running out of hdd space even though I had 50GB to spare. But everthing that we need seemed to work - nvidia graphics card, sound and wifi which is a biggy because this is how she connects to the internet.
The long and short of my problem is that I searched the internet and found that some people put acpi=off or noapic in the sources.list file - this didn't help me on the installed version or on the live cd. What I really wanted to do was disable the ACPI HPET Support in the advanced bios or at least try this. However I could only get into a very basic bios by pressing F2. I tried every other key combination I could think of, but to no avail. I spent most of my time at her house researching how to get into the advanced bios - Asus website, forums, etc with no luck.
So does anyone know how to get into the advanced bios on an ASUS A7TC? I even flashed an updated bios onto her laptop-desktop replacement but no luck. I have tried all the key combinations I could find on the internet but perhaps you guys know better? I am not seeing my Mum for about a month - this is really galling because I really wanted to free her from MS Windows and the hassle of anti-virus software, etc. The thing I am really sad about is that I can't ssh into her box in order to help her.
Sorry for such a long rant!
If there is anything else anyone can think of to smooth the installation the next time I see my mum - thanks.
When I installed 9.04 i386 I got a bios error - MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC. I ignored the error and then proceeded to install ubuntu, however it took a long time to boot from the live cd but I proceeded anyway. Most things were recognised so we decided to dual boot and I went about the installation. This proceeded well (I went and had lunch!) came back and the pc was running out of hdd space even though I had 50GB to spare. But everthing that we need seemed to work - nvidia graphics card, sound and wifi which is a biggy because this is how she connects to the internet.
The long and short of my problem is that I searched the internet and found that some people put acpi=off or noapic in the sources.list file - this didn't help me on the installed version or on the live cd. What I really wanted to do was disable the ACPI HPET Support in the advanced bios or at least try this. However I could only get into a very basic bios by pressing F2. I tried every other key combination I could think of, but to no avail. I spent most of my time at her house researching how to get into the advanced bios - Asus website, forums, etc with no luck.
So does anyone know how to get into the advanced bios on an ASUS A7TC? I even flashed an updated bios onto her laptop-desktop replacement but no luck. I have tried all the key combinations I could find on the internet but perhaps you guys know better? I am not seeing my Mum for about a month - this is really galling because I really wanted to free her from MS Windows and the hassle of anti-virus software, etc. The thing I am really sad about is that I can't ssh into her box in order to help her.
Sorry for such a long rant!
If there is anything else anyone can think of to smooth the installation the next time I see my mum - thanks.