AMD dual-core (nVidia chipset) STILL needs /!NOD with 3.11!?

[AlanB]

My Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe machine (nVidia) still needs /!NOD to enable the LSILogic SCSI adapter. I've tried REMAPping the SCSI adapter's IRQs, but either I'm doing it wrong or ACPI 3.11 still isn't up to the task.

[pasha]

What is acpi version were was all OK? I mean what you try before 3.11

[AlanB]

Replying to pasha:

What is acpi version were was all OK? I mean what you try before 3.11

I have almost always needed /!NOD -- except with 3.07, I think. I have tried every version since 3.0, if not earlier.

But I thought that ACPI 3.11 was supposed to handle the peculiarities of the nVidia chipset better. I thought I had read somewhere that the fact that /!NOD solves many problems with the nVidia chipset was not what that switch was intended to do and that a future version (3.11, I thought) would do things the right way.

In summary, it works with /!NOD, but I was expecting that there would now be a new switch that would render /!NOD unnecessary.

[losepete]

Sorry to jump in but having the Asus M2N mainboard, nForce430/MCP61 chipset I can confirm that /!NOD is required to boot.

I have not met a version of ACPI that does not require that switch with this chipset. Trying to boot without that switch results in the system failing to boot - gets stuck after loading usbehcd.sys, usbohcd.sys is displayed onscreen (using ALTF2ON.$$$ to view drivers loading). If I REM the usbohcd.sys line then the system gets stuck with the next usb basedev line - usbd.sys.

Guess I could REM the usbehcd.sys line and see if the system will boot... Will report back on this.

I do know that the nForce4 chipset - slightly earlier nVidia chipset, does not require the /!NOD swich with ACPI V3.11 and all seems to work fine.

[eco]

e-co:

I am sorry to trouble you, please repeat, what is the problem? with DOS sessions? or other problem?

[eco]

e-co:

Please tell us why HighIRQs are important for you? Here is the node ticket (head of all tickets related to /!NOD): http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/ticket/258#comment:9

[pasha]

where is problem?

[pasha]

Please download experimental ACPI build from Mensys site:

• Experimental build for you:

ACPI-APIC-BAT.ZIP

• Read instructions: ​http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=testcase