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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

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