Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 18:43:02 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "John Boteler" <bote@mediaone.net> Cc: "Larry Baird" <lab@gta.com>, "Thomas David Rivers" <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-S and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <199911210043.SAA34284@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "John Boteler" <bote@mediaone.net> of "Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:29:59 EST." <NDBBIKHNGLINGFICAFEKCEAICGAA.bote@mediaone.net>
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"John Boteler" writes: > It's a good idea on new systems, or on systems upgraded > or changed in a significant way, to select the > system BIOS' option to "Load optimum settings" or > equivalent. In some cases, one or more registers in > the CMOS memory might have gotten junk values inserted > by a previous operator or by a power glitch. > > This can give you the assurance that settings known > to the manufacturer to operate successfully will > be loaded and used. Ditto. My PPro gave me fits with the floppy drive. Seemingly worked OK from DOS 5.0 but not under FreeBSD. Then finally in a fit of desparation I selected "restore defaults", manually made my mandatory changes, and everything started working perfectly. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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