On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Mike Silbersack wrote:
:
:On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Clarence Brown wrote:
:
:> problem. An obvious difference is that during
:> the reboot process the ATI Mach32 VGA board
:> resets and does a characteristic "blink" on the
:> screen with Red Blue and Green color bands during reset. When the
:> earlier heat related problem was evident the reboot froze before this
:> point.
:
:Interesting, I didn't know there were other issues with the board. If I
:recall, the problem I was having on warm boot was related to the IDE
:drives not working right too. Perhaps the BIOS is configuring the system
:in a peculiar way on warm boot that the promise bios / fbsd 4 don't like.
I had a 486 that didn't reset the ISA bus on warm boot. There was a
pretty good chance that the network card wouln't work until the box was
power cycled. It might well be that you have something similiar going on.
David Scheidt
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