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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of a box.
To: skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu (Chris Timmons)
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:18:37 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961127095000.12565A-100000@tahoma.cwu.edu> from "Chris Timmons" at Nov 27, 96 09:56:35 am
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> 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...

Thanks, I thought of that too though  :-(  The cards and motherboard have
all been reseated; the case is an Enlight desktop with auxiliary fan
installed, no internal drives besides the floppy, cooling is verified,
CPU fan (and temperature) reasonable.

I guess I do not really think it is a hardware thing because the box does
a very unnerving "syncing disks... done".  Usually I have seen hardware
problems do much ruder things, crash, panic, lock, etc..

Again, however, this is not a "real" problem for me, since the box is being
replaced with totally new hardware.  But any ideas are very welcome.  It 
just seems so strange...

;-)

... JG