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Date:	Sun, 8 Feb 2004 00:39:59 PST8
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Actiontec modem setup

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Unfortunately, this scsi problem has now overshadowed the Actiontec modem
problem that started this discourse and perhaps should get it's own thread,
(at the moment the scsi is the more important problem), but it still could
be related, I guess.

Steven Levine writes:

> In <20040208023927.7445.qmail@joan.linkline.com>, on 02/07/04
> at 06:39 PM, waynec@linkline.com said:
>
>
>>IRQ's Activity Monitoring <<<< what does "monitoring" mean?
>> IRQ3 com2 enabled <<<< should this be disabled?
>
> This should be covered in the BIOS users manual. These are the settings
> for wake up from power save shutdowns and stuff like that.
>
>> IRQ11 reserved disabled <<< troublesome? ... Actiontec modem uses
>>11
>
> No, unlrelated.
>
>> IRQ15 reserved disabled <<< troublesome?
>
> No.
>
>>Is it possible that the apparent effects of reseating the scsi cable and
>>cards are just coincidental? Some sort of shared IRQ issue? If so, why
>>didn't removing the modem clear them up?
>
> You have a bad piece of hardware. The HBA seems to be a possibility, but
> I would not rule out a MB problem.

Maybe it's just too late at night: ....what's "HBA"?

Motherboard??? More likely the scsi adapter or cable, wouldn't you think?
The PCI NIC card uses PCI and the same IRQ 11 and continues to work fine.
But it just seems too much of a coincidence that this all started happening
within a couple of days of replacing an ide cdrom with a scsi cdrw & 2940U
adapter, and adding a modem (which hasn't yet worked).

I guess I could shift some PCI cards around to see if the 29160LP works in
another PCI slot, but then it looks fine at bootup and runs it's utilities,
it just doesn't want to connect to the hard drives properly, particularly
the first drive (jumpered as address 2).

If it's hardware (and I agree it must be hardware or a bad bios setting) I
keep coming back to the scsi cable as the common hardware piece that could
be failing; possibly the PCI slot or something on the scsi adapter, but the
scsi adapter seems to interface to the machine just fine. Right now I am
booted under WinXP and the second scsi drive (address 6) is working fine.

The Actiontec PCI modem may be a separate issue.

>
>>What other bios settings should I be looking for?
>
> None, really. The one thing you might try is to reset the BIOS to the low
> performance settings. I doubt it will help, but it is worth a try. If
> nothing else, it is evidence.

Low performance settings? I'm lost again. And what would it be evidence of?

I'll mount a search for the bios manual, seems like I saw it on a cdrom
somewhere when I got this machine.

Wayne

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