Re: press 4 to unlock core

On 2020-10-22 19:40, Paul wrote:
> bad sector wrote:
>> On 2020-10-22 12:53, Paul wrote:
>> 
>>> Sometimes taking digital camera pictures of the BIOS screen in 
>>> advance, is a good enough method.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Some Asus motherboards are famous for their bad defaults choices
>>>  in the BIOS, requiring things to be corrected over and over 
>>> again.
>> 
>> new battery
>> 
>> I do take pictures of the monitor when hot
>> 
>> onto something but for now I'm still poking around in the dark and
>>  there seem to be multiple
>> 
>> issues involved
>> 
>> 
>> For starters i bought this DURGOD usb gaming keyboard
>> 
>> and 2 out of 10 boots I have to cycle it into another usb port or I
>>  don't get to see BIOS with 'Del' nor get to select anything from
>> the frozen boot menu. Another solution is to immediately plug in my
>> old keyboard to bypass this issue. I don't know if it's a keyboard
>> 
>> 
>> or a mobo fault.
>> 
>> Another problem might revolve around the sata
>> 
>> rack with mobile drawers for the drives. The last
>> 
>> dozen or so attempts I could not get any drive plugged into the #4
>> slot detected. Suspecting the drive that usually goes in there I 
>> plugged it in bybassing the rack and then it got detected although
>>  I also wondered if its 22,000 hours could be a factor. When I 
>> initially posted this drive was taking a backup, now recognised OK
>> on a direct sata cable fdisk showed it as a dos drive with no 
>> partition. Gdisk showed the gpt table and the only partition but
>> 
>> on mounting it it was empty. When I plug this drive into its usual
>> #4 slot it doesn't get detected, if I plug it into the #3 swapping
>>  with the one in there then neither #3 nor #4 ger detected. A lot
>> of this is way over my head.
>> 
>> 
>> The boot drive is a brand new ssd and booting one of the 
>> installations on it I got a filesystem error, yet fsck from another
>>  installation proved it 'clean'.
>> 
>> This was a Suse-Leap partition, and subsequent
>> 
>> boots on it went without any problems.
>> 
>> So I'm like exhausted for right but will next connect all drives 
>> directly bypassing the mobile tray setup and using the old 
>> keyboard.
>> 
>> Later :)
>> 
> 
> I have had a Western Digital drive damage a SATA port on my 
> Southbridge. My Typing Machine only has five working Southbridge SATA
>  ports at the moment. The sixth port is dead. The hard drive that did
>  this is "retired" and is not used as a spare for OS installs 
> either.
> 
> The SATA interface has a limit on common mode voltage range. I don't
> know if a SATA driver on one hardware, can manage to create enough 
> voltage to damage the
> 
> receiver interface on a second device. It really should not be able
> to do that. Yet... I have a dead port.

While trying to connect the sata cable into it I broke
the high-time drive's SATA connector...  I guess the
gods spared me a lot of useless grief minutes before
the debate :)

With this drive now out of it, I placed it into slot #4
leaving #3 empty, bios picked it up no problem so that
clears the sata circuit including the disk rack

I still get the 'press 4' stuff and complaints about
no overclocking, I answer the keyboard issue in
another answer, plus I have a strictly OS issue
that I will take to the suse group. Soooooo, it
looks like still a multiple-cause issue with ONE culprit
down, the old WD spinner.