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PCIe, power management, and problematic BIOSes

PCIe, power management, and problematic BIOSes

Posted Jul 3, 2011 9:25 UTC (Sun) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458)
In reply to: PCIe, power management, and problematic BIOSes by mjg59
Parent article: PCIe, power management, and problematic BIOSes

So on the system in question, the BIOS leaves the system in a broken, contradictory state that has a statistically decent chance to limp on long enough to boot without crashing, but unless the OS fixes the power management state pronto, a crash is a given.

Words fail me.


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