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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:27:02 +0200
From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: boot screen flashes - why?
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When booting my machine (Amd5x86, ASUS SP3G, ELSA Winner 1000 PCI)
The screen flashes (blanked out black) two times. Once right after
ther fdc/fd0 probe, second some time later - don't know exactly
where at the moment. Today it happened that (with a today's kernel)
during that screen flash the screen remained black and the machine
was frozen - had to power cycle.

Where do these screen flashes come from?

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de