From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 30 16:47:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C168237B40A; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from babkin@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f8UNlMn68050; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:47:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from babkin) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:47:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Message-Id: <200109302347.f8UNlMn68050@freefall.freebsd.org> To: dphoenix@bravenet.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: power supplies Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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