From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 27 09:57:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA02225 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:57:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from tahoma.cwu.edu (skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu [198.104.65.220]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA02220 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:57:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by tahoma.cwu.edu; id AA10403; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:56:35 -0800 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:56:35 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Timmons To: Joe Greco Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of a box. In-Reply-To: <199611271641.KAA19329@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk How is the alignment of adapter cards to the fasten-down point on the case? I had a box which would spontaneously reboot and it turned out that I was wrenching down a PCI adapter in a way that bowed the card slightly (because I had a really cheap case and on top of that didn't do a good job installing the MB.) When I resolved that situation (by shimming the piece on the case that meets the card attachement point) the cards attached better and the same hardware became RockSolid... -Chris On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > Yes, the keyboard was actually unplugged (I have one KB/monitor for the > whole rack). That is mildly unusual, usually the keyboard lives on that > box due to the fact that it has more problems than most of the other > boxes :-) but it has happened both with and without. > > Good idea though, > > ... JG >