Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:28:53 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of a box. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961127202536.6616A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961127095000.12565A-100000@tahoma.cwu.edu>
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Chris Timmons wrote: > > 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... It also sometimes helps to just reorder the cards - I have had a nightmare with ASUS motherboard, good case and cards which just refused to work after a reboot - it took time until it just occured to me to reorder them... Sander > > -Chris >
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