OT: Hardware troubleshooting

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, William O'Higgins wrote:

> Good idea.  If the machine has been up for several hours it does not
> seem to want to find the HD even after reboot - but an hour later it
> comes up just fine.

I had a problem very similar to this although in my case it would 
sometimes fail on the memory test and other times it would hang during 
drive detection.  I thought the case might have a short circuit that was 
only appearing when the board was heated (ie, running for a while).  

After investigating various components and options it turned out to be a 
BIOS bug.  One flash and the problem went away.  When I first started 
looking into the problem the fixed BIOS had not been released of course - 
that only came later :)

This was an Asus A7V m/b btw.

Rob

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