From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 8: 6:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A26437B422 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:06:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7VF6aD11518; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:06:36 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id IAA19064; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:06:32 -0700 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:06:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: "Andresen,Jason R." Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Strange conflict In-Reply-To: <39AE7387.F90B4D90@mitre.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > In the BIOS set the SB16's IRQ to be used by Legacy ISA. (Or yes.) > > It's usually under PNP settings. > > Just in case anybody is wondering about this (yeah right). The SB16 has > magically come back to life after a recent power outage. Although no > amount of power cycling before was able to change anything, losing power > for 8 hours yesterday seemed to fix the problem. --Only now I'm afraid > to turn off the machine. :) Ahh... I've seen that problem before! You can get away with keeping the machine powered off for 10 minutes or so, enough time for anything in memory to discharge. I'm not sure of the mechanics involved, but certain BIOS' tend to keep their settings even during a power cycle. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message