[geeks] Strange x86 problem

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:22:31PM +1200, James Braid wrote:
> Sounds like a really freaky problem ...

I did this: 

- Dissasembled system completely
- Put it back together
- Put in a different Intel PCI ethernet card
- Put in an AGP video card
- Reset to "fail-safe defaults"

. . . and it worked.

I then proceeded to narrow it down to what BIOS setting was causing the
problem - turned out to be "System BIOS Cacheable".  Turn that off, everything
works fine.

Strange.  So strange.  Last time I reset to fail-safe, it still had the
problem.  Maybe it was a combination of reassembly and the new cards that
solved the problem.

I've done PC hardware work for years, and I was at the point of finding a
different motherboard.

Bill

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bill bradford
austin texas