On 4/2/25 16:11, Quincy Lawd wrote:
Greetings,
I have a fairly old motherboard,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ <- there's first clue.
...
Now only today, I had a mediatek wifi card laying around and ran
fw_update and it fetched something like "intel-drm" drivers and mtw
and downloaded them on home directory. So, since they were .tgz files,
I just ran "gzip -d intel-drm.tgz" and then tar -xf "intel-drm.tar"
as root and the entire system froze for about 10 seconds, and then
reboot on it's own and then it just won't boot at all. Everything
powers up, the fan spins, and everything, but there's no power to
keyboard and mouse and the display also doesn't show anything at all.
It also doesn't powerdown too. All the fans just keep spinning. And
I guess something made change to the motherboard? But how though,
I didn't even execute anything, I just untar the "intel-drm.tar" file.
I have so many memories on this device. Would be a shame if it went
down like this. I've never had any issue like this before. I even
unplugged everything and put them back in, and still it's not POSTing
. It's also very interesting, just the moment I was extremely surprised
by how efficient openbsd was, a firmware update just causes my pc to die
it's actually funny.
it's just a simple failure of the hardware.
OpenBSD doesn't update code on the mobo.
"fw_update" loads ROM-like code that is installed into RAM on various
devices on your computer, but does not actually do any permanent updates.
Take power down, power back up, everything OpenBSD has done gets undone.
Odds are, it's one of the capacitors on the powersupply at the processor.
It happens. Frequently. If you are good with a soldering iron, you might
be able to repair it, but it isn't worth the effort.
Nick.
