Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:18:37 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu (Chris Timmons) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of a box. Message-ID: <199611271818.MAA19423@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961127095000.12565A-100000@tahoma.cwu.edu> from "Chris Timmons" at Nov 27, 96 09:56:35 am
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> How is the alignment of adapter cards to the fasten-down point on the > case? I had a box which would spontaneously reboot and it turned out that > I was wrenching down a PCI adapter in a way that bowed the card slightly > (because I had a really cheap case and on top of that didn't do a good job > installing the MB.) > > When I resolved that situation (by shimming the piece on the case that > meets the card attachement point) the cards attached better and the > same hardware became RockSolid... Thanks, I thought of that too though :-( The cards and motherboard have all been reseated; the case is an Enlight desktop with auxiliary fan installed, no internal drives besides the floppy, cooling is verified, CPU fan (and temperature) reasonable. I guess I do not really think it is a hardware thing because the box does a very unnerving "syncing disks... done". Usually I have seen hardware problems do much ruder things, crash, panic, lock, etc.. Again, however, this is not a "real" problem for me, since the box is being replaced with totally new hardware. But any ideas are very welcome. It just seems so strange... ;-) ... JG
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