Reboot Issue
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If this question has been asked and answered, I apologize for asking again. Hopefully, it's an easy question. I am in the process of upgrading my pfSense boxes to new(er) hardware. A problem I was having on one of the old boxes I am now having on the new(er) one: when I reboot the system, it shuts dows to the "Uptime" message and hangs. I have to physically press the Reset button to get it to reboot. Needless to say, that is a pain since my gateways are not conveniently located. Any clue what could be causing this? I had originally assumed it was a hardware issue with the old machine, but this machine had no problem rebooting from other OS installations so I am now at a loss. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
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Jump into the BIOS and try some different power management settings. In the goal to appear to save power, they have been doing lots of odd things in APIC lately.
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My first thought as well, but I've tried every conceivable permutation to no avail. I do suspect hardware issues though. It's an ASUS P5S800-VM motherboard and the net is full of complaints about this or a very similar problem with this board and several versions of Unix/Linux. Many complaints, but no solutions. I picked up three of these for this particular purpose and now I suspect they're essentially junk.