Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:59:23 -0500 (EST) | From | Chris Meadors <> | Subject | Re: 'spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7' |
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Martin Eriksson wrote:
> I'm starting to believe it has something to do with the parallel port being > unconnected, thus sending random signals to the mobo causing an interrupt? > If this is the case it is very possible that it has to do with correct > grounding also...
Actually I believe way back there was a discussion about this same message, Alan Cox said he thought it was caused by bad parallel ports.
That said I see it on 2 Athlon boxes with VIA chipsets. One I had never seen the message until I removed the parallel port QuickCam I had hooked up.
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