From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 27 10:27:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA04047 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:27:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA04027 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:27:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA06696; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:28:53 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:28:53 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Chris Timmons cc: Joe Greco , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of a box. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Chris Timmons wrote: > > 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... It also sometimes helps to just reorder the cards - I have had a nightmare with ASUS motherboard, good case and cards which just refused to work after a reboot - it took time until it just occured to me to reorder them... Sander > > -Chris >