OT: Hardware troubleshooting

[William O'Higgins]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:30:08PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
>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.

I'm pretty sure that this isn't my problem - the board has been running
nicely for at least a year now.  Still, worth looking into.  The MB is
an Asus A7V8X-X.  Thanks for the input.
-- 

yours,

William

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