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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:06:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com>
To:        "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Strange conflict
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008310805030.12478-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <39AE7387.F90B4D90@mitre.org>

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> >         In the BIOS set the SB16's IRQ to be used by Legacy ISA. (Or yes.)
> > It's usually under PNP settings.
> 
> Just in case anybody is wondering about this (yeah right).  The SB16 has
> magically come back to life after a recent power outage.  Although no
> amount of power cycling before was able to change anything, losing power
> for 8 hours yesterday seemed to fix the problem.  --Only now I'm afraid
> to turn off the machine. :)

	Ahh... I've seen that problem before! You can get away with
keeping the machine powered off for 10 minutes or so, enough time for
anything in memory to discharge. I'm not sure of the mechanics involved,
but certain BIOS' tend to keep their settings even during a power cycle.

					Rick



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