Re: [Sheflug] My network hassles - ISA bus dead?

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Alex Hudson wrote:
>
> If you've swapped out everything except the motherboard, then it's the
> motherboard. I can only think of two things would might want to try. The
> first would be an upgrade to the BIOS on the motherboard - try putting
> something more up to date on there. There other would be to have a look
> at the BIOS options and see whether there's anything funny? Stuff like
> clocking on rising / falling edges, crazy nonsense like that. Checking
> DMA is enabled. Anything related to memory access and interrupt
> handling.
> 
> I think it would be worth trying the PCI card in there, though.

 Turns out it's an Abit mobo. I'm trying to track down BIOS upgrades for
it now.

The card is no working....it was down to the IRQ and clock stuff. I
reset the BIOS last night - or at least I thought I had.
 Gave it a go on one particular page, and it broke the card completely
(Linux was reporting Resource unavailable). Played around some more, and
it's now on the network.

It's wierd..I've managed to sort plenty of other machines out in the
past..

 Just need to get enough disk into the machine to make it useful...

 Thanks Alex.

 I hate BIOS settings.

 Baz.

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