Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:47:22 -0700 (PDT) From: <babkin@FreeBSD.org> To: dphoenix@bravenet.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: power supplies Message-ID: <200109302347.f8UNlMn68050@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Dan wrote: > > I had the stangest situation today where a new nic card was put into a > machine and then the machine did not start up. Placed the old nic card > back in the box and it still did not start up. Switched power supplies > with an exactly equal box and both machine booted up fine. This has > happened twice since we started replacing nic cards today with ones with > more buffer space available on them out of about 8 machines now. > > Does this make any sense to anyone? I had almost exactly the same experience with a Tyan motherboard, excapt that it was not a network but video card in my case. Unplugging the power cord from the machine between removing one card and inserting another (or possibly the same) one has helped. Though I don't know why it happens. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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