Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 22:58:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Chet <ec0@s1.GANet.NET> To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flaky reboot problem with this SP3G board Message-ID: <199510060258.WAA28481@s1.GANet.NET> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.951004193519.24614H-100000@trepan.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at Oct 4, 95 07:38:28 pm
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> On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, David Greenman wrote:
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> > Try just pressing "Enter". The machine actually does a 'halt', not a
> > reboot, and it needs a <return> before it will reboot. I don't think virtual
> > console switching works at this stage, either, which explains why the machine
> > appears dead.
>
> I hit Enter at first, then spacebar, then I tried the switch
> virtual consoles, etc. But after some more fiddling last night, I
> think it just might be the hardware itself. The machine was rebooted
> five times after I did the installation last night. Twice it hung as
> I described, twice it rebooted itself properly and once it cleared the
> screen (as if to reboot) and then stayed there. After hitting the
> hardware reset, I get a message saying the CMOS checksums don't match
> (or something) and that it was reloading the factory defaults. Is
> this a bad BIOS revision problem, or bad memory, or what?
This looks like what happened to me on the pre-2.0.5R-snap releases.
On a few of the releases my SP3G did exactly what you described above.
I'm using 2.0.5-950622 right now, I plan on upgrading to 2.1 when it's
released I'm also get a 4.3GB drive at the same time. Back to your
problem, I saw the same thing with 30% of the snap releases up to
2.0.5R I have a SP3G with awsg302 BIOS with NCR 03.07.00 NCR bios.
BTW: asus has awsg3041 bios on there server, but I have not tried
them yet.
I hope this helps
-Eric
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> Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
> System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
> "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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