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Date:      Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:50:16 -0800
From:      Russell Jackson <raj@csub.edu>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Subject:   Re: nvidia0 em0 shared irq problem persists on dell precision 670
Message-ID:  <20061109215016.GB1366@cserv65.csub.edu>
Resent-Message-ID: <20061109215105.GC1366@cserv65.csub.edu>
In-Reply-To: <45529131.9000500@mac.com>
References:  <20061109014329.GA1377@cserv65.csub.edu> <45529131.9000500@mac.com>

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On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:23:45PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Russell Jackson wrote:
> [ ... ]
> >pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum
> 
> Did you notice this?  Try reflashing your motherboard to the latest 
> available BIOS revision, doing a "load defaults", and then clearing and 
> reseting the ESCD.
> 

I reflashed the BIOS (several times in fact), but the checksum message
persists. The bios setup program on this machine doesn't seem to have a
way to clear the ESCD AFAIK.

I'm starting to believe this box is just a typical Dell POS.

-- 
Russell A. Jackson <raj@csub.edu>
Network Analyst
California State University, Bakersfield



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