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Date:	Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:03:10 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Armistice in IRQ wars (?) | system instability

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For the record, and to bring this up to date:

I got back from this last trip on Thurs., and yesterday finally had
the opportunity to try out the suggested troubleshooting procedures.
(Steven: I sent you a note -- to the Mr. KIA address, since that's all
I had available to me from the road -- regarding CLRTC, which I can't
even locate with any assurance despite the diagram in my rev. of the
manual. So, needless to say, I did not even attempt to use this.)

After disconnecting the power, I reseated the memory sticks, and each
*essential* card. When I pulled the AGP card, which happens to block
access to the CR-2032 battery on this MB, I took the opportunity to
remove it, thinking that one of my two battery testers might cover
this type of 1.5v cell. It turns out they don't, so I'll have to take
this cell to the nearest Radio Shack, just to satisfy my curiosity.
It had been on this MB an unknown length of time, since the MB was a
working pull, bought used. No matter: I had a fresh CR-2032 (it says
"lithium" on it, which I don't think the one I pulled did), tested
first in store when I bought it a couple weeks ago, which I
substituted. Interestingly, the MB did not seem to lose its settings
for the few minutes it went battery-less.

Next, I double-checked all CMOS settings, changing a few of them. All
PCI slots went back to AUTO. PNP stayed Off. Update BIOS left On.
And, just for the hell of it, and because it _should be_ irrelevant, I
set OS/2 Memory > 64M to On. Then began the process of reinstating
the Nic, and finally the sound card, successively booting through each
OS to test various things (especially 'Net access) after each change.
The Nic went back into Slot 1, where it originally needed to be in
order to work, but where it was later _rejected._ The sound card went
back into Slot 2, more recently occupied by the Nic; it had been out
of the system for the last few weeks. Everything boots, no traps, no
apparent resource conflicts. It's early yet, but everything seems to
be working, including sound. And I'm kind of at a loss to understand
any of this.

[I still think that W2K will raise _some_ objections to PNP being
turned OFF, sooner or later, and would like to have a dialogue with
any of you who also run that OS (off-List is fine), about some related
issues.]

I did not reset to factory defaults, much less wipe the CMOS and start
over. Dare I close up this box and declare victory ? Maybe not so
fast . . . once it's been stable for a week, I might begin to have
some confidence again.

Perhaps Steven can enlighten us as to just what it is about things
like the Warp Centre or a screen saver that makes them a tripwire for
the kind of resource / stability / CMOS problems I've been
experiencing ? NS Communicator I can readily imagine being a serious
test, since it probably stresses the system more than anything else
most of us commonly run.

Note to Tony: please still advise re Help Desk rescheduling -- if any
-- just in case.

Jordan

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