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My two APU4D4s are currently on BIOS 4.13.0.4 and working fine, but I see that there have been some important fixes in the 4.14.x series. While reviewing the upgrade instructions, there is a note about 'preserving the runtime configuration' during the…

Hi,

I’m investigating into adding NAS services (samba, nextcloud) and extra storage to my APU4D4.

First question is about the case. If I plug a SATA disk to the SATA connector, how I am supposed to install the disk? It seems it won’t fit inside the…

Hi Andy,
we didn't selected WoltLab as engine for forum, but we have to deal with it. From our experience with this engine your account should start to work after some time 24h (?). After some time people registered were able to create threads and reply…

Hi there,

same for me, I just registered for this forum with the intent to post a question, but I am unable.

The user functions (control panel and such) are working, but as soon as one enters the forum area the software looses the account auth and…

Thanks for the response Michał. Reading the coreboot issue, it seems to also represent what I'm experiencing. It would be nice to get to the bottom of it!

Interesting... I have encountered this problem only once when I did know the SPI flash was broken and couldn't flash it with the internal programmer.

Could you please attach a verbose log from flashrom?
"flashrom -w /tmp/apu2_v4.14.0.3.rom -p…

It is actually hard to tell. We have encountered such errors in other apu owners reports, typically it was a BSD system and the problem was Core Performance Boost. When it comes to Linux, such MCEs are rather rare, thus it is difficult to say what is the…

I'm configuring an APU2 (2 GB RAM, 3 ports) with OpenWRT 20.02.0. I have updated to the latest mainline firmware and have had some stability issues. I have turned off core performance boost. After being up for a few hours, I received the following…

Hello,
I have a problem with my APU2 card.
I want to update it to version 4.14.0.3 and I have the following error when I run the command:

flashrom -w /tmp/apu2_v4.14.0.3.rom -p internal:boardmismatch=force

Result :
flashrom v1.0 on FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p29…

Hi Michal

I completely underestimated the creation of a bootable USB stick

All solutions I quickly found using a mix of dd (erase) and then fdisk and mkfs.vfat just didn't work out.

Eventually, I found this instructions …

Hi James,

Please refer which slots may be used for USB modems with SIM card slots: https://github.com/pcengines/a…ties.md#apu4a-apu4b-apu4c

If you put the Quectel EC25 to mPCIe1 slot it won't work with SMI slots on the board. Regarding the SIM swap pin, it…

Hi Andi,

For starters, apu2 does not have integrated graphics so one cannot get VGA output on apu2.

I recall having similar issues with extracting the TinyCore in Linux. Please note that the TinyCore instructions also require to make it bootable with…

Hello,

these are my wishes for an APU2 successor from a personal users point of view. I have a small number of devices deployed.


- high Quality 2.5G NICs (could make use of models with 2 to 5 NICs, but 3 suffice most of the time)
- faster CPU with same…

Hi

Any hints on how to debug this?

Please!

I have 2 APU4D4 's and have installed Quectel EC25 modems in mPCIe slot 2. I'm running Ubuntu server 20.04 and I've also tried DD-WRT. In both OS's the modem can't read the SIM card. I've tried both slots with no luck. I took the modem out and put it in…

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Hi Michał

Thanks for taking care of my issue! Here my replies:

0. On Ubuntu I erased a 8GB USB-Stick, formatted it with F32 and made it bootable:
(Code, 16 lines)

1. contents of the stick (check also my 1st code block in the original message):

• The latest BIOS

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Hi aba,

The USB boot issue you are observing may have various reasons. Few questions to determine the culprit:
1. What is burned on the stick? Any BSD or Linux installer?
2. Did you configure the serial console for the bootloader on the USB stick?

Most of…