On Sat, 6 May 2006, Eric Poulsen wrote:
> In response to the instability issues I've had with LB (It's not ram -- > memtest86+ ran for hours under LB with no errors), someone here > suggested that there are chipset registers that are reset by the factory > BIOS that LB isn't (re)setting correctly, and that LB works well right > after using the factory BIOS because those registers hold their values > for a while. > > I'm conviced this is the case -- I have too many weird issues that can > be fixed by simply flipping back to the factory BIOS, turning the system > on, getting a "bad CMOS" error, then immediately powering off and > switching to LB, which suddenly works again. Check the CMOS battery voltage. If it's low the CMOS will loose a bit or two over time. Ran into that problem years ago on a 286 mb. Russ -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
