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Subject: Re: Need advice on what motherboard to pick (and SCSI controller +  drive)
In-Reply-To: <3653ACC7.E3E647BA@seattleu.edu> from Eric Hodel at "Nov 18, 98 09:29:43 pm"
To: hodeleri@seattleu.edu (Eric Hodel)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:09:37 +0000 (GMT)
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> I have the P2B-LS and have had only problems with it.  The first is that you
> can't turn off the network card unless you plug all the IRQs.  You won't have
> this problem until they create a P2B-DLS.  The other problem I had was with
> first setting it up and that was that it wouldn't boot off a floppy.  Apparently
> have to enable the IDE controller in order to enable the floppy.

This may be fixed in later BIOS releases. I got a P2B-S a few weeks ago and
I don't have any problem booting from floppy with IDE disabled.


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