ACPI: unable to turn cooling device...'on'

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ben_colley_5304 : 25/07/08 02:24 AM : Incident created -   when i try to install linux mandriva on the installation bit on the dmesg or whatever its called i get a message ACPI: unable to turn cooling device [eb813f18] 'on' why is this? If you google for "unable to turn cooling device" you can see I'm not the only one where this happens. http://www.mail-archive.com/acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net/msg11143.html on this website the person is going on about the BIOS settings and something called FanEQ is that anything to do with it? i cant seem to find anything in my BIOS settings that says anything about FanEQ. Please help as this is really annoying. Thankyou.
JoesCat2_5804 : 25/07/08 06:53 PM : Reply received -   You may wish to read a recent article to see if you are someone that is affected: http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/07/25/1150218.shtml In light of such a discovery it explains why ACPI is somewhat difficult to work with for many users even though it really shouldn't be (for people that understand how computing works). You may need to have ACPI disabled, or turned-off maybe if this is causing a problem. Which motherboard are you using? or which brand of computer? so that I could search for possible solutions.
ben_colley_5304 : 26/07/08 12:51 AM : More info requested -   Introduction date 12/13/2004 Country/region sold in * United States * Canada Bundle information The Compaq Presario SR1303WM-B desktop PC bundle (part number PP151AA) includes: * SR1303WM Desktop PC, part number PP150AA * FS7600c 17" CRT monitor * Compaq FLC 2.0 speakers (i only have the desktop) Hardware Base processor Sempron 3000 2.0 GHz: * 333 MHz Front side bus * Socket A Chipset Via KM400A Motherboard * Manufacturer: Asus * Motherboard Name: A7V8X-LA * Compaq motherboard name: Kelut-GL6E hope that help and thanks for getting back to me
JoesCat2_5804 : 26/07/08 01:28 AM : More info requested -   Okay, sounds like we have good details to work with, ASUS motherboard A7V8X-LA, Compaq Presario SR1303WM. Doing a search on the internet, you have an HP computer, and you may want to verify that you have the latest BIOS since the BIOS may have had some updates done between the time you got your computer, and the time "now" that you are attempting to try Linux. You will be interested in the latest BIOS and this is a starting-page to begin your search if the pages pointed to below don't work okay. http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html This tells you how to update BIOS (watch out for line wrap errors below): http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00007682&lc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=447312&dlc=en You are interested in verifying your BIOS is the latest version. You have a Compaq Presario SR1303WM-B so it should be 3.15 right now. If you have 3.15, it is about as updated as you're going to be, if not, you may want to upgrade it first since some if not all problems may be resolved that way 1st. While you are at it on the same web page, you could also check and upgrade the "firmware" for your other hardware such as DVD or CDroms. If the web page below does not look correct, you will need to search for it using the appropriate search words (watch out for line wrap below): http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=447312&lang=en Let's see if this solves your problem. :-)
ben_colley_5304 : 26/07/08 02:07 AM : More info requested -   I have updated my BIOS and tried to install linux but to no avail same error. i really have no idea what to do!! :(
JoesCat2_5804 : 26/07/08 03:37 AM : More info requested -   Well, we got one thing out of the way - upgraded BIOS :-) So now, we may have Mandriva not recognizing your motherboard correctly, or ACPI is broken for that motherboard. Okay, try again with install. During install you will want to say "NO" or "OFF" to ACPI support. This should allow you to install Mandriva, but there won't be any ACPI enabled on it. This means that the fans in your motherboard will be running top-speed which is okay. A bit noisy, but okay. Let's see if you get this working okay.
ben_colley_5304 : 26/07/08 12:13 PM : Incident closed -   How would i do that, do i have to go into verbose mode??