Can't Read VPD Keys (nForce3 Problem)

[Amy M]

Yes, this is a BIOS problem.  But the motherboard makers (ASUS and 
Shuttle) don't sense any urgency to fix it if it works OK in Windows.

Currently, what I am doing is turning off the syslog daemon.  This is 
probably too dramatic, but is there anyway to ask FC not to check the 
VPD key?


James Wilkinson wrote:

>Amy M wrote:
>  
>
>>However, in checking the dmesg file, I found the following repeated 
>>error message:
>>
>>eth0: -- ERROR --
>>      Class:  internal Software error
>>      Nr:  0x19e
>>      Msg:  Vpd: Cannot read VPD keys
>>
>>In /etc/syslog.conf, there are the following two lines:
>>| # Everybody gets emergency messages
>>| *.emerg                                                 *
>>
>>What happens if you comment out the second line? Or, better still,
>>change the last asterisk to something like /var/log/emerg ? (And
>>truncate that file occasionally?)
>>
>>This is only a workaroung. It's not a fix. But it looks like the bug is
>>in the BIOS, at a quick glance.
>>
>>James.
>>
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