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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 1998 07:35:59 -0400
From:      Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Greg Skafte <skafte@worldgate.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ASUS P2L97 board. 
Message-ID:  <199809231136.HAA12200@Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us>
In-Reply-To: <199809230556.WAA00792@word.smith.net.au>
References:  <Your message of "Tue, 22 Sep 1998 18:46:01 MDT."             <19980922184601.D7279@worldgate.com>

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At 10:56 PM 9/22/98 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
>> I'm currently in the proccess of replacing a tekram 430Tx motherboard
>> with a ASUS P2L97 (440LX ) motherboard.  
>> 
>> Currently installed on the tekram is 
>> 
>> 	IDE controler 	PCI Bus0
>> 	PCI vga card 	PCI Bus0
>> 	multiport NIC   PCI Bus1
>> 	multiport NIC   PCI Bus2
>> 	miltiport NIC   PCI Bus3
>> 
>> works like a charm very happy .... 
>> 
>> Went to install the _Exact_ components from the 430tx board to install on
>> the ASUS board and get 
>> 
>> 	IDE controller PCI Bus0
>> 	PCI vga card   PCI Bus0
>> 	multiport NIC  PCI Bus2
>> 	multiport NIC  PCI Bus3
>> 	multiport NIC  PCI Bus4
>> 
>> made me go hmmmm..... PCI Bus4 ...... hmmm ... and guess what the card on 
>> bus 4 is not a happy camper..... it not work .... FreeBSD detected
everything
>> fine .... but the device on Bus4 is unhappy .....
>> 
>> any thoughts  what happened to bus 1 .....
>
>Sounds like a BIOS 'feature'.  Try moving the cards into different 
>slots, particularly if you have them all together with the VGA card at 
>one end.
>

Couldn't it be one of those PCI Slave sockets too?


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Drew "Droobie" Baxter
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