Shutting down normally and then turning the system on is okay, everything loads. It's just when I reboot from 8.2, or reboot from the 8.2 installer, that this happens. Win2k and 8.1 do this just fine.
Hardware: A7M266-M Asus board OEM'd for HP "Bermuda/BoraBora" running BIOS 3.33 from HP website It's an AMD 760 Ironwood chipset AMD Athlon 1.4 Ghz Tbird 5400rpm Seagate 40 GB (Win2k hd) 7200rpm Maxtor 20 GB (linux and a fat32 partition) Geforce 2 GTS 64 MB DDR Sony Spressa 16x10x40x Toshiba 12x DVD floppy SB Live! Value Agere Winmodem (Mars chipset) ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Sparenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Expert List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 1:14 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Rebooting 8.2 or 8.2 installer causes bad CMOS checksum > On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 21:58, Joseph Stegner wrote: > > The thing starts acting up before I get to Lilo, but only after a Mandrake > > 8.2 or 8.2 Installer reboot. With Win2k reboots and 8.1 reboots, all is > > well in Lilo-land. Also when I shutdown and boot up, I get to Lilo easily, > > and can load 8.2 with no problems. Rebooting is the problem here, which is > > very inconvenient for me as a student needing to develop for both platforms. > > > > It never reaches Lilo after rebooting 8.2/Installer. It just sits there > > after initializing my mouse trying to get to the HDDs. Waiting for a minute > > or so leaves the computer there, sometimes saying something is wrong with > > the system clock and preventing booting at all. I have had to kill it upon > > more than one occasion, only to see all my BIOS options had been returned to > > default. > > Dense I am... (in my best Yoda voice) This is happening after an install > from which point you are unable to boot to anything... Is it also > happening after a normal shutdown? I think this is what you are > saying... Understand I may not have an answer but if I find out enough > info either someone here or maybe someone I know will have seen this > before and can help. For the sake of completeness Can you give us a > hardware list... Most important is of course is the Mobo and CPU... It > could well be a BIOS problem and not an OS one... but there does seem to > be a link, from what you are saying. Also have you had to do any > special tweaks like Raid cards or Nvidia .... I think we may be treading > on new ground with this problem... maybe not. > > James > > > > > Like I said, shutting it down then turning it back on will stop the problem > > until I reboot again. > > > > Joe > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "James Sparenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Expert List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 12:32 AM > > Subject: Re: [expert] Rebooting 8.2 or 8.2 installer causes bad CMOS > > checksum > > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 21:01, Joseph Stegner wrote: > > > > The problem is Win2k and Mandrake 8.1 cause no such problems at all. > > Why > > > > would 8.2 be the only one to bring out symptoms of a faulty BIOS? > > > > > > Joseph, > > > > > > Our confusion I believe is that Bios only reacts and prints to the > > > screen before you get to lilo... This is what tells the box what OS to > > > boot to. Or are you using some kind of BIOS based bootloader other than > > > Lilo? Or are these errors appearing after Lilo or whatever your > > > bootloader is. I'm not questioning your findings just that the > > > description you give is a tad confusing. If It occurs in BIOS then at > > > that point it is entirely BIOS (Remove your hdd and you can still boot > > > to BIOS on many mobo's then you get the error no OS found...) BUT if the > > > error is occuring after Lilo selection of the OS... this is strange. > > > However I've learned never say never in computers. (I have ram that > > > doesn't like one of my computers.... It works in 5 others and tests good > > > with memory testing software, but it won't work in one box. *sigh*) So > > > if you would please could you clarify the confusion... and someone here > > > hopefully can help. > > > > > > James > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Todd Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 11:34 PM > > > > Subject: Re: [expert] Rebooting 8.2 or 8.2 installer causes bad CMOS > > > > checksum > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---- > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > > ---- > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > > > ---- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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