Problem with ecc and acpi

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I bought me a new Laptop compaq 615 with AMD/Athlon64 and ATI/HD3200 an 4GB Ram.
By install kernel-default I couldn’t even push Esc for looking the boot message.So I choose the failsave option.After all seems to run like normal.After first reboot it stoped with a message that ecc isn’t enabled in the BIOS. The kernel gave me the option to enable it or to use the ecc_enable_override boot option. In my BIOS I didn’t find any settings for ecc so I used the boot parameter.And it really start booting further, But by udev stopping again.So I tried to boot with Failsave agan.Now he start booting but stops with an black screen. Now I used the the parameters acpi=off ecc_enable_override and surprise he start all.Rebooting with this settings was also possible. So I write them with yast as an fix boot parameter. Reboot one was working,but by the next one he hangs agan and told me he have problem with mmio.Now I tried an insall with win7 and everything was working fine with it.So one more install of suse (Dualboot now). But I run in the same story. I also try it sabayon (for testing) --same thing! My there is somebody with an new idea?

Greeting to all Erich

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Did you run the media check on the install disk?

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For sure! I also tried by network install.
Yesterday the system was running long enough to install CCC from ATI.After it was a little bit better.So I could read the logfile from booting.It seems that there is a BIOS firmware bug.So it looks like I have to contact HP to see what they’ll say.
Right now I stand the computer on a upper position,so that there is an airflow in the down of it.I disable the fanspeed control for running the fan non-stop.It’s not nice but it works.For booting I still need the option acpi=off ecc_enable_override

So thanks for the meantime and I’ll report what HP will say.

Greetings Erich
PS:I’m using suse since 9.0 or 9.1, I run a mediacenter(XBMC and Myth) with ftp-server, home desktop and my old aptop is also opensuse 11.2.

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Somtimes I can’t see the wood because there are too many trees around.
I solved the problem without HP.

  1. I missed the rpm
    omnibook-kmp-default - Kernel modules for Omnibooks from omke-project(I also installed kernel-firmware,but I’m not sure if really needed)

  2. The ram don’t have ecc (I’ll change them if warranty is over)
    So my bootoptions are apm=off ecc=off

  3. I needed the driver from ati (I used the shell script for install)

Sometimes it can be so easy.

So thank’to everyone who want help.
Greetings Erich

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Most RAM these days is not ecc. I’m supervised that you needed to turn that off. Maybe a bad setting in the BIOS???