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Date:	Sun, 9 Jun 2002 22:23:10 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: IRQ Wars, the sequel

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In <3D03D64B.800DAA9D@pacbell.net>, on 06/09/02
at 01:27 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>The hardware was fine just before the return trip. I'd find it hard to
>believe that any damage occurred, or that anything happened to change
>this, on a lasting basis.

Hard to say. I prefer to deal with facts rather than beliefs, but until
you isolate the problem, one can only work based on probabilities.

>Thanks for the advice. The H/W was not marginal prior to this, and had
>weathered several such short trips without these problems. I think the

So, most broken hardware worked fine until it broke.

>respects. But I'll try this, if necessary, after notating all current
>settings. This is an ASUS P3B-F, and I'm struck by how different the
>Bios screens are, vis-a-vis the P2B-F I used previously. There seem to

That's the way it is with BIOS settings. FWIW, I own a P3B-F, so I have
some familiarity with it.

>be fewer screens, with considerably less settings available, and some of
>the nomenclature has changed.

As hardware becomes more standardizd and self-configuring, there's less
need for BIOS settings.

>Exactly what did you mean re "making sure the MB is properly isolated ?"

When a MB is mounted in the case, the signal paths are supposed to
isolated from the case ground. That's one of the reasons for the fiber
washers that sit on top of the mounting post.

>And are you saying that PNP turned ON, and AUTO for all PCI slots, is
>just fine for OS/2 ?

Not quite. PnP OS off and Auto On works fine here.

>Is it the "Reset Configuration" option (where during the H/W boot it will
>say "ECSD Successfully Updated"), that does this ?

That clears some of the settings and is worth a try. There's jumper on
the MB that clears the entire CMOS.

Steven

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