The Green G5 forum section is blocked for me (I guess for others too as it has zero posts in it), so am posting here instead. Is the lock intentional?
I run Debian Linux. When I first got the G5/Intel N100/16Gb, I had issues with the Intel Wireless drivers. The stock Debian ones did not include the correct Intel firmware files as the WiFi/BT chip in this product is very new. So I got them from another distibution.
This worked for 4-5 months.. Recently, after a kernel update, I started getting sudden freezing. Nothing in the logs, it just stops. I note there are system errors to do with ACPI, BIOS, thermal management (methinks the cause of the freezing) and the same Intel WiFi Firmware from 6 months ago. So something has changed. I tried to reset the BIOS settings to factory, but that made it worse. I don't know if the BIOS has been auto-updated by Debian. Daftly I did not export the current settings before I reset it.
1: Please supply the factory optimal default BIOS settings so that I can be sure, when I try various Intel firmwares, I am not applying them to a misconfigured BIOS. The BIOS settings are vastly complex and I don't know what half the settings do so can't verify if they are correct. If you don't have this information please supply a reference where it may be obtained.
2: Is this a stock Intel UEFI bios? (I guess not as it has your logo, though that is easy to change). If it is not a stock Intel then are there any updated BIOS releases since this product was released. I've checked the files section on your site (which points to Mega - which I can't D/L from) in any case no BIOS listed there.
3. Bios version - correct as per manufacture?
dmidecode says:
Vendor: American Megatrends International, LLC.
Version: N95V105
Release Date: 07/17/2023
BIOS Revision: 5.26
...<snip>
Handle 0x0047, DMI type 221, 82 bytes
...<snip>
Invalid entry length (0). DMI table is broken! Stop.
4: As you can see dmidecode also says that the DMI table is corrupted, which may be causing the ACPI errors I am getting and hence the possible thermal issue. Please verify that with a recent Linux Kernel the DMI data should report correctly. I did not include the entire DMI as it's huge, but note that all the power related DMI tables are zero. Is this a BIOS bug or board fault?
