Messages in this thread |  | | From | Markus Gutschke <> | Subject | Re: Pentium reset and smoking motherboards | Date | 17 Oct 1996 12:24:04 +0200 |
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Jason Burrell <jburrell@crl.com> writes: > Basically what happens is that the system won't reboot from Linux like > it's supposed to. We've hashed this out on the list before, though I don't > remember what the outcome of the discussion was. However, I've lost two > motherboards, and *both* times it's been after Linux has done a reset. > > Linux tries to reboot, it doesn't work, I hit the reset switch, and the > motherboard is dead. Nothing on the screen. Kill the power and reset, and > it's still dead. This happened twice. Though on the second board it > started giving interesting looking green streaks and blocks on the screen > and beeping thrice (two short and one long, or one long and two short, I > believe) on powerup, but then after a few times went back to normal and > started working again. Then, two days later, it went boom after I manually > finished the reboot Linux started.
This might be completely unrelated by I have been experiencing similar problems with my computer. These problems were positively *not* caused by Linux, though. Eventually I found out that my graphics card was to blame. Reseating the card in its socket and the EPROM on the card fixed the problem for me. But if I were you, I would just replace your graphics card with some completely different brand and check if that makes any difference.
Markus
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